Dumbledore the General

[northsouth17]

No: HPFGUIDX 124225


> Betsy:
> As far as the war today - I disagree that Dumbledore has been 
> merely reacting, and I also disagree that he's been doing all that 
> bad of a job in fighting Voldemort.  For one, Harry is still alive,
> which is huge.  For another, Voldemort is no longer operating in
> shadows, which is also huge.  Voldemort is not immortal (no Stone),
> which is not a small thing.  Voldemort doesn't know the extent of
> Harry's threat to him, again not a small thing.  Plus, one of 
> Voldemort's best placed operatives, Lucius, has been exposed and 
> his influence at the Ministry nullified.
> 
> Really, Voldemort's only victory has been gaining a body.  And even 
> in that I suspect the victory is incomplete.  Dumbledore's gleam of 
> triumph when Harry told him that Voldemort can now touch him at the 
> end of GoF suggests that using Harry's blood may not have been a 
> good move on Voldemort's part. <snip>


northsouth:
All of this stuff is personal to Voldemort. Perhaps, like last time, 
defeating Voldemort himself would be enough to end the war (though 
considering the number of unrepentant DEs hanging around, it seems 
to have been ended far from effectively) but they still have to get 
to Voldemort. So far the only one who has managed to do that is 
Harry, and that's beacuse Voldemort is too much of MWAHAHA type 
villain. He's always doing stupid dangerous things so he can get a 
chance to face off Harry himself. Harry has yet to really take 
initiative and go after LV, and if he ever does, it will need a much 
better organized, better coordinated, possessing better intelligence 
and strategy Order than I've seen so far. 

Northsouth