Confusion about the TT. DD knows everything...

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>>vmonte responds:
>I think that Harry did go against Dumbledore's wishes during OOTP, 
but I think that in books 1-4 Dumbledore was allowing Harry and gang 
to do a lot. Why didn't Dumbledore take care of Buckbeak and Sirius 
himself during PoA? He could have taken some polyjuice and TT himself 
don't you think? It's a pretty dangerous job he gave two thirteen-
year-olds. He is definitely training them, IMO. Harry needs training 
in order to be able to defeat Voldemort. Dumbledore is also using 
Hermione and Ron's gifts to help Harry along as well.<
<snip of JKR interview>

Betsy:
I do agree that Dumbledore gave Harry a lot of leeway throughout the 
books.  And I agree that Dumbledore having Hermione and Harry do the 
Time Turner stuff instead of himself (not sure why he'd need to 
polyjuice himself), and his actions in CoS with the whole loyalty 
line, are examples of Dumbledore giving Harry a chance to learn.

However... :)  I still don't think Dumbledore actually wanted or 
encouraged Harry to go after the Stone himself.  It doesn't make any 
sense, and it put far too much at risk.  I think the Norbert incident 
was Dumbledore giving Harry some space to take a little risk and do 
something a bit outside school rules (and I think it's mainly the 
Norbert points Dumbledore is replacing at the leaving feast), but 
taking on a fully trained and obviously formidable Death Eater is a 
bit much to expect of a first year.   

Betsy