Lucius and the Spying Game and back to MD TBAY

[boyd_smythe]

No: HPFGUIDX 81130

> Jen Reese: 
> I can understand in SS/PS where Harry speculates, "I 
think {Dumbledore} sort of wanted to give me a chance....I reckon he 
had a pretty good idea we were going to try, and instead of helping 
us, he just taught us enough to help...It's almost like he thought I 
had a right to face Voldemort if I could....." (US, pg. 302) YES! that 
is DD's philosophy at work--Harry and Co. are working on the mystery, 
*by their own choosing* and Dumbledore accepts their choice and 
tries to help. <

Jen, it sounds like you're almost ready to turn to...BADD ANGST! :o

> But in COS--I seriously doubt any of the Muggleborns are choosing to 
be attacked, in fact they are mortally afraid, and if Dumbledore is 
standing by and allowing the attacks to happen....Isn't that the form 
of Evil Pip!Squeak talked about in answering my other post "evil 
triumphs when good men do nothing?" 
> Please tell me if I'm not getting the gist of MD and I will go back 
for a fourth, fifth, sixth reading, I promise.....
> Jen <

Letting people choose for themselves *without* hatching a plot to 
force them to do so? Very ANGST-y!

And I agree with your concerns! One interpretation of COS is that DD 
stands by letting a monster try to kill chuldren. But I don't like 
that interpretation. IMO, that would be an evil thing to do. Not very 
Dumbledore-ish.

My preferred, BADD ANGST-friendly interpretation is that Dumbledore 
just didn't know exactly what was going on and how to stop it. So he's 
not evil, just imperfect. And I don't think he lets Harry & gang do 
the sleuthing in COS to respect their choice--after all, the other 
children at Hogwarts have been placed in his care. I think he tries to 
solve the mystery himself unsuccessfully and mostly out-of-sight of 
Harry.

**Yellow Flag Alert**
Disclaimer: The following sentence is *not* part of BADD ANGST and I 
have already throw a yellow flag at it, so proceed with caution!

Maybe DD even knows that only Harry can defeat LV, even in LV's COS 
incarnation as Riddle?

Yep, that's random, but so is COS. We still have little hard knowledge 
of where, if anywhere, COS fits in.

-Remnant
wondering if bloodsicles are frozen or just, you know, very coagulated