OoP - GUILTY Dumbledore (was Dumbledore's true sorrow motives)

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 80235

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" Kneasy wrote:

> Nothing sinister in allowing, encouraging an 11 year old untrained
> student wizard to face the Voldy monster!? A creature so powerful
> and evil that the rest of the WW won't even say his name?

Nitpick: I am under the impression that Dumbledore (who is the only 
wizard that Voldy fears) was observing from some hiding place, ready 
to rescue Harry from Voldy if necessary. (PS/SS climactic battle, in 
case it isn't obvious what I'm talking about.) 

> DD know - Sirius. Sirius is the only thing that would get Harry out
> of safety into danger. 

I can't believe that Harry, even as bad-tempered as he was in OoP, 
wouldn't have hastened to rescue Ron or Hermione or Ginny if he 
thought they were being tortured by Voldemort. In fact, I think he 
would have hastened to rescue any female or younger fellow student 
from any of the three 'good' Houses.

> So Sirius is to stay at Grimmaud where Harry knows he's safe. 
> Meanwhile Harry is to develop protection. He doesn't. So he's
> fooled into  believing the one thing DD doesn't want him to
> believe. Sirius is in danger. Off he goes, knee-jerk reaction. 

The above theory of yours is in direct contradiction of Talisman's 
theory in which Dumbledore *wanted* Harry to fail to develop 
Occulumency because he *wanted* Harry to be fooled into rushing into 
danger because he *wanted* Sirius to rush to rescue Harry, all so 
that Sirius could be killed in the presence of Harry, DD, and LV. My 
own feeling is that yours is more in accordance with Occam's Razor, 
but what the hell do I know? I believe in surface readings.