OoP: Dd's treatment to Harry

[Melody]

No: HPFGUIDX 63318

>Calimora wrote:
>>Dumbledore has to accept Harry as an intelligent and independent 
>>entity, something he could not do. 
>  
>Melody argued -
>Um. I thought he already did that? **clip**  Sure, Dumbledore *helps*
>Harry, but he in no way it coddling him or treating him like a child
>when it comes to letting him face a serious deadly creature like a
>basilisk.

K wrote:
> But he is treating him like a child when he keeps information from 
> him 'to protect him'.  
**cut nice defense of that statement**


Hmmmm.  So Dumbledore is acting like Molly?

Oooo, I like it.  Mostly because I get so mad at her for treating the
kids like she does, but I have no problem with Dumbledore doing that. 

So now that we have Dumbledore not wanting to do that anymore, can we
assume that the DA will be an incorporated part of the OoP?  Will they
be a part of the meetings and defense/offense strategy?  They are 16
now.  All of them.  (Well not Ginny...)  Almost of age.  But then
again, what can they do while in school?  What good would come of
their complete knowledge of the activities?  I agree that what
happened in OoP, all the *failures* (big grin), would not have
happened if they would stop treating Harry as if he could not hold
anymore.  

So in that regard, I concede.  They are treating Harry like a child. 
But the requirements on this *child* to perform on the level he is
achieving is *way* beyond his age.  In that regard, they do treat him
like an adult and educate him accordingly.


Melody