[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP-Dumbledore's "gleam"

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 67206

In a message dated 7/3/2003 8:01:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
ugadawg02 at yahoo.com writes:

> It is true they saw Voldemort at his 'height of power' but I wonder 
> if that is enough to risk the life of one you care for as a child in 
> order to prevent more deaths? 
> 

"To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing 
you love....You must hold nothing back..." - Robert E. Lee, GETTYSBURG

A commander in battle cannot afford to take into consideration his "caring" 
for someone - "We must use the tools we have," as Lincoln said.  If the defeat 
of Voldemort requires somehow the sacrifice of Harry Potter, or Severus Snape, 
or Dumbledore himself, then that is what he must do.  "The needs of the many 
outweight the needs of the few, or the one" - & a Wizarding World under 
Voldemort is too horrible to be contemplated.  It's the choice between what's right, 
& what's easy.

Sherrie
(When the time comes, you have to be ready to put your own brother in the 
hole in the line)


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