CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 19: the Lion and the Serpant

[imamommy at sbcglobal.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 99893

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "meriaugust" <meriaugust at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Melody" <Malady579 at h...> 
> wrote:

> 
> > 3)  Where was Dumbledore during the Quidditch match?  Is he 
trying 
> to
> > stay out of trouble and not give Umbridge cause to hate him 
more, 
> or
> > is he using this "away" time to get things done with the OoP?
> 
> Meri: Perhaps if DD was there, he feared that LV would attempt to 
> control Harry, which was basically why DD avoided Harry for the 
> whole year. Perhaps it is unusual for the Headmaster to attend 
games 
> so early in the season, and this would be evidence for a deeper 
> relationship between Harry and DD. 

imamommy: 

 I think DD gives Umbridge and her Education Decrees a lot of space 
at his school.  He could have overturned the punishment after the 
fact.  I think DD is just letting Umbridge (and Fudge, for that 
matter) spin themselves out, kind of like letting a baby scream 
themselves to sleep.  Face it, DD has the power and influence to do 
whatever the heck he wants in the WW.  He's a patient man.