DD and the rat (was:Re: Minerva McGonagall-/Dumbledore)

[severelysigune]

No: HPFGUIDX 115581


Nora wrote: 
> Dumbledore has a plan, but I think postulating the level of  
involvement/manipulation that the Agent!Peter theory does makes DD  
out to be Preposterously Competent.  He's good, but he's not *that*  
good.  He makes some whammies of mistakes.  I'm not sure he really  
knows whatever happened at GH.  I'm pretty sure that he's actually  
wrong in his interpretation of the Prophecy, and Harry's going to do  
something elegantly different.
 
But I'm probably wrong. <


Sigune:
Frankly I have always found it astonishing that DD bases so many of 
his actions on a prophecy - or at least tells Harry he does. Surely a 
man who has reached the age of 150 ought to know a thing or two about 
prophecies, such as the fact that they are invariably interpreted the 
wrong way. This is the man who tells Harry he seriously considered 
removing Divination from the Hogwarts curriculum; and at the end of 
OotP he sends the boy home with the Doom of a Prophecy hanging over 
him.
There was a Sphinx in the TTT-labyrinth: to me, that brought Oedipus 
to mind, and all the tragedies that ensue when people listen to 
oracles and seers and such. My first thought at the OotP end-of-the-
year chat was: Dumbly's wrong.
I'm not a fan of fluffy endings and solutions, but, with Nora, I 
frown upon an ending that involves Harry butchering Voldie. There has 
to be a better means of getting rid of the old Dark Lord.
So, Nora: I hope you're right.

Yours severely,

Sigune