The Riddles' Murders (WAS: The only one he ever feared?

[ohnooboe]

No: HPFGUIDX 117554


This is WELL off the beaten path for this post, but I thought I'd put 
it out there...

Big ol' snip...
Kim said:
 Dumbledore's the "greatest wizard in the world" according to the 
> opinion of many (myself included ;o)), but his behavior is so 
> inexplicable at times.  Maybe he's getting too old (such as in the 
> way Harry describes him at the end of OotP) and that advanced age 
> affects his behavior, but 50 years ago when young TR killed his 
> father and grandparents, DD was still a youthful 100, wasn't he?  

It seems that many people have this opinion, but I find myself 
wondering if the issue isn't that Dumbledore is "loosing it", as it 
were, but rather he is has so much more life experience then any of 
us would, and he is so magically advanced that we can't really 
understand what he is thinking.  While, I do agree he has 
his "senior" moments (and he's pointed this out as well, OotP) 
perhaps his methods and thought processes are too far beyond what we 
can comprehend with our (or their, in the WW) current 
knowledge/experiences.  Any thoughts...

Patrick...who doesn't think DD's as eccentric as I once thought...