Why Dumbledore is at Hogwarts (was Wizard government)

[greatlit2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 84126

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "elfundeb" <elfundeb at c...> 
wrote:

> It's interesting that Dumbledore never wanted the MoM job, where 
he would have been able to institute reform from the inside.  
Perhaps JKR believes that governments are inevitably corrupt, and 
that true reform can only come from the outside. 
> 

I think that DD stays on at Hogwarts because his priority is to 
ensure the welfare of students. Voldemort would take over the school 
if DD was not present, and he would turn it into a school for the 
Dark Arts-A Death Eater training ground. I noticed that most of the 
Death Eaters that we have met thus far were fairly young when they 
joined Voldemort. Snape is currently in his mid to late 30s. He 
would have been in his early twenties (or perhaps in his late teens) 
when he and his friends joined Voldemort. Lucius Malfoy was 41 
(according to the Daily Prophet) in OOP, which means that he too 
joined at a young age (recall that Voldemort had been steadily 
recruiting support for eleven years). Barty Crouch Jr. was only 19 
when he was sent to Azkaban. 
It might be said that DEs are young because most die young, but I 
don't think that is always the case. Some of them (like the 
Lestranges) are hardy, and have survived long years under conditions 
to which death might be preferable. It is interesting to note that 
the members of the Order are not in a specific age group. If Moody 
could live so long, why can't DEs? I think that most older wizards 
and witches were unwilling to make the sort of sacrifices needed to 
join Voldemort, even if they accepted his ideas (i.e. Sirius's 
parents). And Voldemort knew this, so he didn't approach them. So 
instead, he asked the young and guillable. Dumbledore doesn't want 
Hogwarts to become Voldemort's feeding ground, so he's decided to 
stay on as the Head.

Thanks for reading all that! :)
greatlit2003
who wonders what Dumbledore's childhood was like