Dumbledore Accepting Fate

[D.G.]

No: HPFGUIDX 69423

Sorry I'm posting this as a new post, rather than remaining within 
the thread of the old one -- but I read these in my e-mail, and 
there's no indication there of the message #, and I simply do not 
have time to come here and click through page after page to find the 
original message.  

Sooo....

bjliii wrote:


What I find most interesting is that DD never did try to kill LV.  
Why not?  What ill effects could come of it?  I suppose we don't 
know, but DD doesn't even try - maybe he knows.  Of course, he also 
says that wouldn't be satisfying to him.

Me:

Unless I misinterpret the prophecy, Dumbledore couldn't kill Lord V. 
if he wanted to  -- only Harry can do that.  (Remember, Lord V. 
believes he's defeated Death, and in fact it appears that he's come 
very close to it;  only Harry, it seems, can stand between V. and his 
goal.)

My earlier point about Dumbledore was that he might simply be 
assigned to tail Lord V. and conk him out whenever he showed his li'l 
slit-eye'd face --even though V. would inevitably rise again and need 
re-conking.  Again, it's a pretty dull and joyless mission, 
especially for a Wizard of Dumbledore's intelligence and 
versatililty, but someone's gotta do it, and it seems to make a lot 
more sense to have one guy out there who's perfectly capable of 
keeping Lord V. at bay, rather than enlist the entire force of non-
Dark Wizards (as well as Harry) in an epic battle whose outcome is 
far from certain.

Think of it in a Public Health sense:  if we can keep a disease in 
remission by hiring a couple of good sanitation workers to scrub down 
our streets and alleys every morning, why would we want to neglect 
this easy solution and instead wait for the disease to become so 
powerful and virulent that it threatens the entire population?

D.G. ("JazzmanChgo"), who'd love to see a flying Sanitation Dept. 
truck labled "Dumbeldore's Serpent And Pest Control -- You Sight 'Em, 
We Fight 'Em!"