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

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 73755

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Wanda Sherratt" 
<wsherratt3338 at r...> wrote:

Mela:
> > Maybe dumbledore wanted Sirius to die...:(  

Wanda:
> 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

See Talisman's post number 66983 and 67142 for an interesting take on
Dumbledore.

Marianne