It's over, Snape is evil /Ruthless Dumbledore?

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 138469


> > Alla:
> > I am sure we can speculate that Dumbledore COULD have find out 
> > anything. To me the fact of the matter is that he had no clue 
> > that Sirius was not a secret keeper.
> > 
> > In fact he testified at the hearing that Sirius indeed was a 
> > secret keeper. To leave Sirius in Azkaban knowing that he is 
> > innocent would suggest to me a very dark Dumbledore indeed, 
> > but I don't remember any proof to that.

> "colebiancardi" <muellem at b...> wrote:
> Dumbledore - great at legilimens, could not read Sirius's mind 
> and figure it out?  See, I think he didn't care or maybe because 
> Sirius was Harry's Godfather, he was worried that Sirius would 
> intefere with Harry's upbringing and kidnap him from the 
> Dursleys.  Just a thought...
 

Oh my, that's quite a can of worms!  But it does fall under the 
whole "plot hole and contradiction" problem we've been discussing 
lately.

I think that, in the end, we are going to see that the saga is kind 
of like swiss cheese - full of holes, that is.  Why didn't DD visit 
Sirius and use Legilemency?  Was it because he wanted Harry to stay 
at the Dursleys?  Well, I severely doubt it.  JKR's mad scramble back 
from OOTP signals, I think, that she sent messages on that and other 
issues she did not mean to send.  JKR is great at inventing a 
background and presenting interesting characters.  She's not so great 
when it comes to keeping her plot points consistent or thinking 
through the implications of some of the things she writes.

I doubt in the end that DD will be shown as ruthless, or a puppet 
master, or the world's greatest conspiracy spinner.  I think in the 
end he will be a figure much like he was in HBP -- a great man 
surrounded by contradictions and plot holes.


Lupinlore