OOP-Dumbledore's "gleam"

[Lea]

No: HPFGUIDX 66975

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ugadawg02" <ugadawg02 at y...> 
wrote:
> 
>   - Yet if we assume this is true, what about the statement 
> of 'fatherly love' Dumbledore makes at the end of OoP? If he knows 
> this is he not sort of using Harry as a pawn in this game to force 
LV 
> to be LV's own undoing by not telling everything as soon as he sees 
> this pattern forming? Just a thought that perhaps Dumbledore did 
see 
> it but thought of using Harry to get to LV, or perhaps I am just 
> wondering more about that gleam. 
> 
> -RJ

Me:
Harry can never be a pawn in this story.  That's why Dumbledore cares 
so much--Harry is "the-Boy-who-lived," "the one with the power to 
vanquish the Dark Lord".  Dumbledore may see a pattern, and use that 
pattern (of Voldy's overconfidence as weakness) to help Harry fulfill 
his purpose, which, if we believe Trelawney's prophecy, <i>is</i> to 
overcome Voldy.  Dumbledore isn't "using Harry to get to LV," he's 
helping Harry, in every way he can, which I would assume includes 
using Voldy's weakness against him.  I'd have a "gleam" in my eye, 
too, if I'd just found out about my deadly enemy's miggest mistake.

~Lea~ --"scary Snape fan"