Dumbledore and the DA

[tiger_queen429]

No: HPFGUIDX 71522

I think that Dumbledore knew about the DA. First of all take Harry's 
present from Sirius and Lupin: books full of defensive spells. Why 
would they have given him that if they didn't think that that gift 
would useful to Harry for the DA? If Harry did not have the DA, then 
that gift would have been pretty useless. What I mean by that gift 
being useless is that Harry would have had no one and no where to 
work with those spells without the DA. So if Sirius and Lupin knew 
about the DA, then as headmaster of the school, Dumbledore would 
have  known about the DA too. If he knew, then Dumbledore could have 
put a stop to the meetings if he felt that they shouldn't have 
continued. And he did not even have to talk to Harry to do this; he 
could have sent Prof. McGonagall to talk to Harry in his place and 
told him to stop. In fact having Mcgonagall talk to Harry would have 
been the safest way to end the DA without Umbridge knowing; 
McGonagall asking Harry to stay after class for a minute would have 
failed to get Umbridge's attention while putting a stop to any more 
DA meetings. Because nothing like this happened I believe that 
Dumbledore knew about the DA, but did nothing to prevent it from 
meeting. 
Thus I think that Harry should not feel guilty about Dumbledore 
leaving the school. Fudge was bound to find some way to get 
Dumbledore sacked in the near distant future anyways, so it was just 
convient that Dumbledore's leaving would save Harry from being 
expelled. The smile Dumbledore had on his face after looking at the 
list showed that was glad the DA stood for Dumbledore's Army so that 
he found a ready made excuse to save Harry form trouble. I think that 
both Harry and Dumbledore both made the mistake of believing that all 
the members of the DA were trustworthy. 

Tigerqueen