Dumbledore the General

[northsouth17]

No: HPFGUIDX 124244


phoenixgod2000:
> 
> Why didn't he do what Hermione thought of five months later and get 
> some kind of interview with an alternative news outlet to 
counteract 
> the daily prophet? Is Hermione really that much smarter than DD?
> 

Northsouth:
Just one quibble (wow. unintended pun) with your post - WW press. I'm 
not sure just a how large the Wizarding population is, but I doubt 
it's larger than a middling city, a few tens of thousands. I don't 
think there's room there for more than one major daily newspaper, and 
a few specialized publications, like the Quibbler (and some Wizards 
at least read Muggle papers, and probably books too). And with Harry 
getting bad press and dropping in popularity, any small paper, 
like "Witches Weekly", or something else of the sort would be leary 
of publishing something goign against the general trend of things, 
not to mention presure from the Ministry. 

Maybe I'm horribly pessimistic, but when I first read Hermoine's whole 
plan I was absoloutely certain it was going to backfire terribly. 
Harry would become the laughing stock after being published in a 
wacky magazine, be accused of more anything-for-attention, no one 
would actually read it, etc. The only reason why it was so succesful, 
at Hogwarts at least, is beacuse Umbridge used the exactly wrong 
tactics and banned it, giving it legitimacy. 

It occurs to me on a related note that if Umbridge is anything to go 
by, the Ministry have no clue how to fight terrorist/guerrila groups. 
Her process of increasing abuses of power at Hogwarts is reminiscent 
of the authority given to Aurors in VW1. 

Northsouth