Why he is still alive?

[Melody]

No: HPFGUIDX 110401

SS Susan wrote:
> My big question concerning this idea has to do with DD's willingness 
> to hold off like this--to await the big opportunity for eradicating 
> Voldy until a) the public is fully aware of his return as Big Baddy 
> and b) the eradication will be big enough news.  

It is not that the eradication would be big news; it is more to show
the public that Voldie is not something to be feared anymore.  Not
because he is dead, but because he is not the worse thing ever and not
someone worthy of being feared anymore.  Make his name a joke not a
fear.  And Dumbledore holds off so that the public can know that their
fear is not founded anymore.  Not because *he* says so, since after
all they did not believe him before, but because they have *proof*.


>Do you think DD would hold off *if* it means several people will
>likely be attacked & killed by Voldy & his henchmen in the meantime?

Yes, I do.  As I compared in my first post, sometimes the general of
war has to make hard choices.  In order to save thousands, he has to
sometimes allow a few to *possibly* die to accomplish complete
eradication of the enemy for a time.  It is a terribly troubling
choice, but a necessary one.  Dumbledore has to get the WW back on its
feet, and sometimes that involves more than just the MoM telling them
everything is alright.  They have to believe it so.  (Why am I
thinking of Tom Ridge right now...)


>Or do you think the Order and others-against-Voldy will manage to
>show that he & the DEs  are not such baddies after all?  [I suppose
>we're back to the old question about the greater good:  do a few
>suffer for the larger cause?  (Unless you do think it's possible to
>show that Voldy's NOT so much to be feared?)]

Yes the old question does apply to this, but more I don't think the
Order needs to show they are not that bad, but more show that they are
not that powerful.  That good can over come the bad.  In the past, the
good was overwhelmed by the Death eaters.  Dumbledore was loosing his
battle.  Now he has had 13 odd years to think of a new plan to win the
war, and get the WW to stop fearing them.  

Now what that plan is...hmmm...will have to work it out.  But he has
two years to make it happen.   Though I assume that because *I* know
there are two more books.  Dumbledore does not.


Melody