Dumbledore's role in Sirius' death was Re: ESE!Snape (Was loads of other stuff)

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Neri wrote::
>I was referring only for wasting his great potential for a whole
year doing house cleaning and feeding a hippogryph<

Pippin answered:
Potential to do what? I'm afraid the mission wouldn't have
interested Sirius unless it was really dangerous, and on any
dangerous mission, somebody might have made a mistake
and he might have died.

Neri again:
This is exactly why I suggested missions for Sirius where he would 
act alone and endanger only himself. There are several kinds of 
missions in warfare in which the ability to act alone and take risks 
is essential for getting results. Sirius had a very good record of 
working alone in a hostile territory, something that very few 
soldeirs are capable of. Yes, it would have been dangerous and he 
might have died, but this is what he wanted to do, what he was 
capable of doing and what the Order needed him to do. The other Order 
member were taking big risks, so why shouldn't Sirius? 

Pippin:
I think the real complaint here is against JKR, who's up against
the same problem Shakespeare had with Mercutio. It seems a
sad waste to create a wonderful character only so he can
die and make the hero feel like a failure. But that, I'm afraid, is
what Sirius was for.

Neri:
I fully agree that Sirius was for, but I wasn't criticizing JKR. JKR 
intentionally chose to plot her story so that Sirius death would 
result from a series of strategic mistakes, made by none other than 
the great DD (At least this is the subject line above, although for 
some reason the discussion keeps shifting to Sirius' temper). Had 
Sirius died because he wanted a dangerous job and DD gave it to him, 
I wouldn't have any problem with it. War is a dangerous business and 
sides that are not prepared to take any risks usually lose. But as it 
happened, DD wasted Sirius for a whole year in order to keep him safe 
and then lost him anyway. 

Neri