[HPforGrownups] Re: what was Dumbledore's plan, really?

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 137951

> Sherry
> who must confess she is a sentimental reader at times and can't bear 
> puppet master Dumbledore concocting plots and plans with everyone, 
> that ends up causing Harry more grief and pain!

Valky:
No, Dumbledore is not the puppetmaster concocting in my theory, it is
in no way DD's fault that the responsibility comes to him to stand
behind Harry through this all. But I believe he has to take this
responsibility or leave the WW and Harry to Voldemort. I do not envy
him the choices that he would need to make to subvert the sinister
ingenuity of a wizard like LV. If Sirius and DD died for the plan,
then they died because without their sacrifice all was lost for Harry,
for his friends and for all the people of the WW. And it seems to me
that they may well have died for this plan.


Sherry now:

I snipped that wonderful post, because there wasn't a need to reply to the
individual parts.  Yes, I can completely see Sirius making the kind of
sacrifice you suggest.  It got me crying over Sirius all over again.  That
poor man, who gave so much, more than a possible sacrifice of his physical
life, when you think of the years in Azkaban, and had such a brief time of
freedom and so little happiness.  If there's any justice in the fates that
govern the WW, I hope he gets a smashing big reward.  sniffle.

And oh yes, you are most definitely free to giggle at my sarcasm, which I
did mean humorously, of course, at the beginning of my previous message!

Sherry
thanking  Valky for what might be a reasonable excuse for the death of
Sirius.