Bad rap for Dumbledore? was: Sirius - who is right?

[Karen]

No: HPFGUIDX 73698

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mkaliz" <kai_z at o...> wrote:
> I see Dumbledore as a kind of "General Manager" for the Order. He
> seems to be the "point person" in getting people organized,
> authorizing missions, coming up with strategy, etc. Members in the
> Order generally seem to take their cue from him. But, as General
> Manager, he also needs to be aware of the 'human' side of the Order
> members, not just their task capabilities. 
> 
> Speaking from experience here, it's pretty important for a manager 
to
> know if one of his/her employees is going through a messy divorce, 
or
> has a sick child at home, or a spouse who was diagnosed with 
cancer,
> or a parent with Alzheimer's etc. Those kinds of things will 
impact an
> employee's performance and therefore impact the manager's business
> objectives. A good manager needs to be aware of those sorts of 
things
> so that s/he can make adjustments in task assignments or deadlines 
or
> vacation/sick-time, and so on. Not to mention the fact that, it 
just
> makes good sense to demonstrably care about your employees' lives,
> rather than treating them like a means-to-an-end. ::g::
> 


If Dumbledore were truly omniscient and omnipotent, we'd have no 
story. It is a character's flaws that allow a story to unfold. 
Besides the fact that all of the other characters have free will and 
are not totally controlled by Dumbledore, only led by to some degree.

I think Dumbledore's failings are mostly in interpreting other 
people's reactions to situations. Most of the time he picks up on 
their moods immediately; other times he underestimates them (as he 
habitually does Harry) or overestimates them (as he did Snape). He's 
also hired at least 3 dreadful DADA teachers, which shows that he 
cannot penetrate their thoughts enough to know the truth about them. 
He obviously cannot see through someone using polyjuice potion. 
(Surely there is some way?) 

Dumbledore is powerful, but he isn't all powerful, and he already 
has admitted to making mistakes in judgement regarding several 
people.

Karen