fading of the Order (was Tactics & Prescience)

[David]

No: HPFGUIDX 76777

dan wrote:

> And my sense is that the DA will, in some 
> measure, supplant the OOP.

Yes, mine too.

I (along with many other listies) guessed in advance that the Order 
of the Phoenix would be more or less what it turned out to be - an 
association of anti-Voldemort wizards led by Dumbledore.  Where I 
guessed (I hope, temporarily) wrong was that I thought it would turn 
out to be an organisation so flawed that the reader would be very 
ambivalent about the prospect of Harry joining - just as GOF leaves 
one ambivalent about the prospect of him being an auror.

In fact it is clear (IMO) that the Order is flawed, the crucial 
weakness being Dumbledore's use of knowledge from which Harry 
suffers in OOP (the book).  That Sirius, Molly and the others have 
no real compass for deciding how much to tell Harry is very telling, 
IMO, and indicates the bankruptcy of the order to act as the 
harbinger of Dumbledorian inclusiveness.

But it's not in your face the way the lawlessness and violence of 
the aurors as law enforcers and peacekeepers is.

David, hoping Elkins is reading this