OoP - GUILTY Dumbledore

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No: HPFGUIDX 80071

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
<really big snip>> The thing Dumbledore did which caused Harry to 
suffer most, 
> delaying to teach him Occlumency, he did for the sake of Harry's 
> comfort. If Dumbledore had known that all he had to do was let 
> someone close to Harry  die in order to develop Harry's power, 
> why would he have bothered having Snape teach Harry 
> Occlumency in the first place? 
> 
> Assuming Dumbledore deliberately arranged Sirius's death puts 
> more holes in the plot than it takes out, IMO.
> 
> Pippin

I do not see Dumbledore as arranging Sirius' death either, although I 
thought the Occlumency lessons were handled in a very slipshod way.  
I think in the next book Harry will have to deal with his feelings of 
guilt over causing Sirius' death though, as well as his placing blame 
on Snape.  The bottom line is if Harry had used his noggin he would 
have spoken to Snape before sneaking into Umbridge's office. Instead 
he realizes AFTER he got caught when Snape was summoned by Umbridge 
for a veritaserum, that he could have told HIM.  Then to charge into 
the MoM, as he SHOULD have figured Voldemort wanted him to do...  How 
could he not know this was playing right into Voldemort's hands?  As 
you can tell, I am a tad bitter about Sirius getting killed.  I love 
the books, the characters and of course the author, BUT...  I want 
Sirius back, which isn't going to happen, since, as I understand, JKR 
has said he is definately dead.  Then again, that doesn't mean there 
is no way he will be back, does it?
Lynnette, who is way too attatched to several fictional characters! 
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