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

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 73711

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Melanie Black 
<princessmelabela at y...> wrote:
> Sure frequent communcation, and jobs to do..would have made it 
more emotional...but in the end...he wouldhave still made the same 
decision he had before.  
>  
> Maybe dumbledore wanted Sirius to die...:(  
>  
You know, I've thought about this myself, and someone else has 
suspected Dumbledore of not caring about Sirius, or even having his 
own plan going that can easily include sacrificing other people's 
lives.  I tend to think of Dumbledore as almost a God-figure, but 
really, he reminds me of a different kind of god.  I was watching 
Peter Brook's "The Mahabharata", and I think Dumbledore reminds me a 
bit of Krishna in that story.  He's a sort of ambiguous divinity, 
that nobody is quite sure of; he seems like everyone else, but 
you're aware that he's operating according to a rather different set 
of rules, and sees things from a totally different perspective.  
There are two places where he knows that something bad is going to 
happen, but he deliberately doesn't intervene, and prevents other 
people from intervening.  "Let every one go to his limit," he says 
in one place, when a favourite character is set to lose everything, 
and in fact does so.  And when another character is cornered, he 
looks at him sympathetically, then says, "All the signs are against 
him.  Take his life," and the character is killed.  The end of 
Sirius was a little like that; everything was against him, and it 
was as though Dumbledore stepped back to watch the final act play 
out.  I don't feel that he WANTED Sirius to die; maybe it was just 
that he couldn't keep him alive without making Sirius's life almost 
artificial.

Wanda