Hitler Alive! ...Student Dead!

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 115479



Steve: > > 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)
 
Finwitch:

Dumbledore was giving a speech for a funeral. It's time to speak of
Cedric, and while he gives 'healdines' of how he died, he also admits
they have the right to know the truth. Giving details simply does not
belong to this *situation*! I don't know about you, but I feel that
telling all the nasty details in that speech would have been
profoundly disrespectful to Cedric Diggory, his housemates and his family.

Magda: 
> 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.

Finwitch:

And yes, Hermione did have a good idea. Harry wants them to know the
truth, but doesn't know how to tell. She contacts Luna Lovegood - so
it *will* be published. (Rita Skeeter DID say it wasn't *likely* to be
published anywhere, didn't she?)

I think Dumbledore wouldn't get it *published*, even if he did try to
contact the press, or even someone to write it!

Hermione has the advantage of "owning" someone who will write the
story (and many people DO believe what Rita Skeeter writes!), and also
of knowing someone who will see it published. (And while Luna isn't
all that close, they get the reward in huge sales!)

Also, Harry's the *witness* when Dumbledore can only repeat what Harry
told him.
 
Magda:
> 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?

Finwitch:

Sure, go to the papers... sounds easy. Dumbledore has no control over
what's going to be printed! He may have told some representatives of
the press, but the editors-in-chief chose not to publish it. (Because
CF told them not to, perhaps, and bribed them on top of that? Or maybe
Lucius Malfoy did so, on Voldemort's orders?)

Finwitch