OoP: I don't understand some things of Dumbledore

[Renee Daniels]

No: HPFGUIDX 62514

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Kirsten Gilson <byujava at y...> 
wrote:

> Sorry if this has been asked before, but how come DD
> didn't tell Harry what was going on with his dreams. 
> I'm sure Snape must have reported the visions to DD,
> and he would then know that Volde was trying to lure
> Harry there.  If DD had just told Harry then what the
> prophecy was and that Volde was going to try to lure
> him there, then why would Harry want to get it?  It
> doesn't make sense to me.  
> 
> Oh, and how come Dumbledore thought that he could only
> tell Harry important information like this at the end
> of the year?  Why couldn't he call Harry to his office
> in, say, October and let him know something then?  Any
> ideas?
> 
> Kirsten
> 
>
Me:
I think part of it is that to a certain extent, Voldie knows what 
Harry knows. If DD tells Harry that Voldie is obsessing over a 
prophecy, LV is going to ask *how* DD knows. And LV being the 
paranoid S.O.B. that he is might then think: Spy. Which would be bad 
news for Snape and the Order.

If DD tells Harry not to go into the Department of Mysteries Harry's 
going to ask why - DD's running out of answers and excusses that 
don't place burdens on Harry, so he trys to avoid it.

He only fills Harry in because it's too late not too.

In a big and off screen way I think that this book was almost as much 
about the development of Dumbledore as it was about Harry. With it 
firmly established that DD is not only falible, but literaly CAN NOT 
fight the last battle for Harry, it is now possible for Harry to come 
into his own without DD dying.

~Calimora (Who thinks that Sirius' death ended Harry's reliance on 
*all* of his father figures.)