CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 27, The Centaur and the Sneak

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 113997

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Hannah" <hannahmarder at y...> 
wrote:
> Hannah now: <snip> He says he's not going into hiding - yet we see 
and hear no more of him until the night of the DoM.  Umbridge has no 
idea where he is although she is trying quite determindly to find 
out, presumably Fudge doesn't either... so if they are trying to 
find him and can't, then he must be hiding.  He's entitled to, since 
he's on the run from the law, but why say that he's not going into 
hiding?  Is he just speaking figuratively, meaning that he's not 
going to sit and do nothing?
> 
<snip>> I think he shows remarkably little empathy for Sirius at 
this point.

> The other thing that comes across in this scene is DD's arrogance 
(I bet a lot of people will disagree with me on this!).  But DD 
really does think a lot of himself - his lofty assertion that he 
could escape Azkaban for example.  He is probably justified in this 
> comment, since he is the greatest wizard of the age or whatever, 
but I do think that over confidence is an error made by DD as well 
as by LV.
> 

Tonks here:

I don't see this the same way. DD is not going into hiding and he 
has not. He has left Hogwarts, but he is not in hiding. If someone 
needs him,(not just looking for him with the wrong intent) he is 
there.. wherever there is, even in the MOM.

When he says "I will not be going into hiding" he is not belittling 
Sirius, just making a comment of fact. He will be doing other 
things, other places, but still working for the Order.

He is not arrogant!!  Again he is just simply and straightforwardly 
stating a fact. Why waste time, just tell it like it is. I see DD as 
a very humble man. That does not mean that he is not the most 
powerful Wizard in the world. Of course he is and he knows this, 
everyone knows this, even LV. So he has no need to glory in it. DD 
is too mature for that. What else would you have him say? We can't 
wait time and energy with going to prison just to get out again. Be 
practical.. just remind Fudge of what he already knows and be done 
with it. Time is wasting.. LV is out there... we don't have time for 
these petty things.

Tonks_op