[HPforGrownups] Hitler Alive! ...Student Dead!

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 115477

> HITLER ALIVE!!! STUDENT DEAD!!!
> 
> I think the wizard world is frustrated by Dumbledore's repeating 
> of /headlines/ without the details to back them up. Dumbledore may 
> have valid strategic reasons for doing so, but to the wizard world 
> at large, that doesn't make it any less frustrating. I think this 
> position is clear when you
> see how fast the wizard world and the students turn their opinions
> around once Harry's interview is published. 
> 
> Steve/bboyminn (was bboy_mn)


Steve raises a good point.  Personally I'm willing to cut Hermione a
LOT of SPEW slack because she's the one who came up with the idea of
giving an interview to the Quibbler and putting the story out front
where it can do the most good.  It was brilliant - and much better
than anything Dumbledore came up with.  This is where I think
Dumbledore really fell down on the job - not with regard to
occlumency or Harry but with getting the word out about Voldemort.  

What was he thinking of?  What's Dumbledore's strategy?  He's sending
envoys to the giants but not trying to win over the wizarding public.
 

Also, as the Red Hen site states: why not start telling the world
that Big Bad Lord Voldemort is really all-grown-up Hogwarts
overachiever Tom Riddle - a halfblood himself?  Wouldn't that put a
crimp in DE recruitment if purebloods knew that BBLV-TR wasn't one of
themselves?  What's Dumbledore holding back for?

Magda


		
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