DD's greatest fear (was: Snape's part in death of Sirius)

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 108229

> Pippin:
> > Also out of *Dumbledore's* reach. The great fear he had was that
> > Voldemort would force him to attack Harry. 

> SSSusan:
> *IF* I've understood Pippin's 2nd sentence correctly [notice the
> Big If], then she's saying that DD's great fear was that Voldy 
> would *force him* to attack Harry.  Is this what DD was talking 
> about when he said he couldn't make direct eye contact w/ Harry 
> throughout this school year?  <snip> I thought it had to do w/ a 
> fear of Voldy *learning* things if he was possessing Harry and 
> Harry was looking directly into DD's eyes...or that if Voldy was 
> possessing Harry, then he [V] might force HARRY to attack DD.


We have to remember that Dumbledore and the Order didn't know what
was happening with Harry and Voldemort.  The best they could come up
with was that Harry was somehow being "possessed" by Voldemort -
which gave Harry some very bad hours when he overheard this at St.
Mungo's.

With this in mind, I think that Dumbledore and the Order thought it
was at least possible that Voldemort could take over Harry (like he
takes over Nagini) and use him to physically kill Dumbledore who
would have to defend himself by attacking Harry - not killing Harry,
but Dumbledore is a powerful wizard and even pulling his magical
punches might do significant damage to a teenager.

Magda