[HPforGrownups] Trusting characters Re: bullies? twins, padfoot and prongs

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 118847

--- Sherry Gomes <sherriola at earthlink.net> wrote:

>After all, this isn't a trained army.  It's a bunch of volunteers 
>who hate the evil and are trying to fight it.  Dumbledore is the 
>commander, of course, but he hasn't engrained sound military tactics

>into his followers or order members, that we know of.  In fact, it 
>isn't even that kind of war, two armies facing each
>other across a battle field.  There's no way that Sirius would have
>calmly waited to get orders from Dumbledore, if he thought his best 
>friend and surrogate brother was in danger.  He'd try to help, even 
>if he hadn't thought it through yet.  


Just because they're not wearing uniforms doesn't mean that the Order
shouldn't have some level of military discipline to it.  A bunch of
sincere volunteers doing their own thing as long as its
anti-Voldemort is not an effective force against evil, it's simply
muddling along.  If the Order has goals, it has plans and for those
plans to work there has to be an agreement amongst the Order members
to have discipline, obey the leadership when decisions are made, and
keep the lines of communications open so that plans can be changed if
necessary.

Sirius going off on his own, however well-intentioned, sincere, even
saintly if you like, was only setting himself up and wasn't doing
anyone any good at all - certainly not James and Lily, certainly not
Harry, and certainly not the rest of the Order.  Being Sirius he
reacted in a characteristic fashion and because of this Peter
Pettigrew - his inferior in every respect - was able to manouevre him
into a trap.

Magda


		
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