OOP-Dumbledore's "gleam"

[lee_lhs]

No: HPFGUIDX 67010

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ugadawg02" <ugadawg02 at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Lea" <ElfinChildLB at y...> 
wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ugadawg02" 
<ugadawg02 at y...> 
> > wrote:
> > (snip)
> 
>  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.  
> (snip)
> > 
> > ~Lea~ --"scary Snape fan"
> 
> I do not know, I think perhaps my using pawn before was too strong 
a 
> word, but I do think that Dumbledore is using Harry in his own way. 
> Even if you use someone in order to help them by using a 
threatening  
> person's weakness against themselves are you still not using the 
> person you are trying to protect by putting them against the 
threat? 
> 
> -RJ

They are in a war, people have been killed already. IMO, Dumbledore 
is in the position of a military leader. There's a price attached to 
command, Dumbledore's paying that one in full, and all of 
his "soldiers" in the fight against Voldie are carrying the risk of 
being killed or hurt in that battle.
I jus want to remind you that Dumbledore and the other grown ups  
experienced Voldemort when he was doing more, serious damage, when he 
and his DEs murdered not "just" one or two people, but hundreds, 
maybe thousands, in a gruesome way. Dumbledore's OoP is trying to 
prevent this from happening again. They might very well pay with 
their hearts and souls to defeat and destroy Voldemort this time.

"If good and evil fight in the same way, use the same tactics and do 
harm to others, then where's the difference between them? What makes 
one better than the other when the blood trail and nightmares they 
leave are just the same?" 
And there was something in one of the earlier books where someone was 
going on about Voldie's strength, and then said that Dumbledore was 
as strong a wizard as Voldemort, maybe stronger, but there were 
certain things that a *good* wizard as Dumbledore just wouldn't do.

I wonder, though... does the good side begin to fight by the means of 
the dark side now?

Lee