Dumbledore the General.

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No: HPFGUIDX 124191



> Kemper wrote:
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> Harry beat LV in the grave yard because LV was prideful enough to 
> hand him back his wand.  But granted, he won the prior incantantum.

This is Harrys only real independent victory over LV, and the key 
here is that it's only Voldemort that he's fighting. We've heard a 
lot about a scramble by both sides for allies - giants, goblins, 
dementors, which suggests to me that before the big Harry-Voldemort 
duel, there's going to be a longish *war* too. I don't really see 
anyone other than DD who can command the whole Order aginst all the 
DE's, Dementors and whatever else Voldemort manages to recruit. 
Voldemort himself will probably eventually be Harry's problem, but I 
don't think Harry has the abilities now, nor will he by the end of 
Book 7, to be the best person to be the *general* for the whole order.

I don't think DD is doing very well as a General though. Even last 
time round, Lupin mentions how disorganized and unprepared they were. 
And this time, DD seems to be focused on protecting Harry, quietly 
recruiting members, possibly nodding grimly now and then at whatever 
Snape tells him. OTOH, the only thing I can think of offhand that 
they could have done at this point was to go after known DE's, which 
would probably have just earned DD an annoying visit from Fudge, 
along with an order to release those upstanding members of the 
community right away. 

It might be very interesting to see who will come to lead the Order, 
if DD were to croak. Moody, possibly, though I would love to see 
Arthur or Lupin dealing with shouldering that sort of 
responisibility. Just so long as it isn't Harry or one of the kids 
(Unless, in some highly exceptional circumstances, it's Ron) because 
I think they need to stay at Hogwarts, and, well, honestly, how 
precocious can you get? (Alexander the great notwithstanding:-))

Northsouth