Who's to Blame/Ending Occulmency/Long

[Shoujo]

No: HPFGUIDX 100634

On 10/06/2004, at 12:46 PM, nkafkafi wrote:

>  Who's responsible? The answer seems quite simple to me. There was a
>  major screw up. DD was the supreme commander. Snape was the direct
>  commander in the field. They knew what was the situation. Harry
>  wasn't even in. Therefore they are responsible.

Sorry to make my first post here a further dumping on Dumbledore (I 
think JKR hands him possibly even more problems than poor Harry cops), 
but I think the responsibility for Sirius death lies pretty much on old 
Albus.

If DD had been straight up with Harry about the Voldemort situation and 
the whole prophecy, then Harry wouldn't have been blindly responding to 
a (fairly understandable) teenage desire to solve the world's problems.

This may have undone the work that was the entire point of Harry's 
warding to the Dursley's, however, in providing too much information 
too soon, but I agree with Dumbledore in that Harry's defeat of an 
ephemeral Voldemort (not to mention a bloody BASILISK) at the end of 
second year (CoS) should have signaled that Harry was made of a tough 
enough stuff to take whatever further news DD could have delivered.

So in short, I think Sirius death is attributable to DDs incredible 
reluctance to tell Harry why he's The One. (See? By using 
capitalisation from 'The Matrix' I'm still using a Warner Bros. 
property and no-one has to pay royalties! Genius!)

Shoujo Bill

(Short Bio/Intro Follows)

22yo. I write music for film, TV and theatre, desperately trying to 
kick start my career. Also doing post-grad music technology studies at 
the Queensland Conservatorium of Music (I'm from Australia - G'Day). 
Crowning Achievement : Scoring "The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe" for 
the theatre and getting rave reviews and audience niceness. I'm a 
Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione, Draco/Himself shipper. My fave book is OotP 
(I had a teacher in 7th grade _exactly_ like Umbridge and I boarded at 
school then, so I really feel for Harry in that book. I had everything 
but the bleeding quill.)

Best of All, my Birthday is tomorrow, all my assignments are due and 
I'm gonna see PoA!!!!

All done.


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Bill Cooney
Original Music for Film, Television, Theatre and Multimedia