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

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
Snip of Neri's post and quote from book 5
Pippin wrote:
> Sirius could not possibly endanger only himself. Any danger to 
> him was a danger to Harry, a danger that Dumbledore could not 
> protect against, because in Harry reposes a power "more 
> wonderful and terrible than death, than human intelligence, than 
> the forces of nature [...the power that ]  took you to save Sirius 
> tonight."  Dumbledore knew that if Sirius were captured Harry 
> would go after him and he would *not* be able to prevent it, any 
> more than he had been able to stop Harry from going after the 
> Stone, or entering the Chamber, or following Ron  into the 
> Shrieking Shack.
> 
> Sirius was more heroic than we realize. By keeping himself safe, 
> much as he hated doing it, he protected Harry until Harry had 
> strength enough to survive the confrontation with Voldemort at 
> the MoM.
> 
> Pippin

I was just going to ask the question: "Why?  Why did DD need to keep 
Sirius alive?"  Thank you for the answer.  This also gives a great 
deal of depth to the conversation between Fred, George and Sirius at 
Christmas right after their dad was attacked and they were angry they 
could not go to St. Mungo's.  I don't have my book, but if memory 
serves Sirius says "You don't understand.  There are things worth 
dying for, your father knows this and he will not thank you for 
putting the Order in jeopardy."

I guess in Sirius' case, there are things worth wasting your life 
for, if all you can do is stay safe so someone else will too.

Great post Pippin!
Sue(hpfan)