JKR Chat "The Crucial and Central Question"

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 92395

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Laura Ingalls Huntley 
<lhuntley at f...> wrote:
> And I don't know if it could technically be said that there was all 
> that much to do  in the underground movement department, at least 
after 
> the first couple years or so, as the DE's were pretty much subdued 
by 
> that time and Voldy was kinda incorporeal.

I think it could be said that the DEs were more terrible once 
Voldemort was removed. Without him as their leader and with a power 
vaccuum, they could become far more terrible than Voldemort ever was. 
Remember what happened to the Longbottoms.

> Well . . . can Sirius *really* be considered an asset in OotP?  

Yes. He may not be the most powerful wizard, but I'm willing to bet 
that he still has quite a lot of power. After all becoming an 
animagus imo takes a lot of skill and power. 

> He's 
> impetuous, irrational, and spoiling for a fight 

Good for a war wouldn't you say?


> -- not to mention he's 
> a bad influence on Harry (keeps trying to get him to do inadvisable 
> things).

So is Ron. Aside from this if I were Dumbledore killing Lupin would 
have worked better. Fellow's a werewolf and the weakest of the 
original four(in mind) aside from Wormtail. Plus he didn't even tell 
Dumbledore that James, Sirus and Pettigrew were animagi when he had 
the chance. 

>*And* he can't leave the headquarters (except that he does 
> anyway, which just causes more trouble).  

Don't think so short term. Sirus would still be very useful in the 
long term especially when the battles starting happening. Right now 
when it's a secret war, Sirus wouldn't be of much use, but his use 
would increase once Voldemort starts striking out with his army.

> Again, I'm not saying that Dumbledore is *bad* or unethical or 
> anything, just that he's pulling Harry's strings for the greater 
good 
> and I think he's gonna get burned for it.

I think Dumbledore is obviously trying to make look out both for the 
wizard world and Harry. Remember what he said that he was unwilling 
to tell him the prophecy in PoA and CoS because he wanted Harry to be 
happy? He obviously cares for the kid as a person not just as a 
warrior or a champion.