Dumbledore the General

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SSSusan:
>I have a question for either of you (or anybody else for that 
>matter).  Do you think that entering into negotiations with giants 
>or centaurs or goblins or any other group would have had a very high 
>likelihood of success if everyone believed Voldy was gone for good?  

Probably not.  I actually don't think trying to get the giants, 
centaurs, and goblins on the good side is going to work, anyway, and 
could be a somewhat wasted effort even now.  However, there would 
have been people all along that believed LV was not gone forever (the 
same people that believed DD when he said LV was BACK with no proof) 
and they could have been working all along in preparation.  Not to 
the extent of girding for war, perhaps, but I certainly would have 
been reviewing HOW LV got his power to begin with.  Where did he 
learn to suspend death?  How could he have survived?  What would he 
most likely need to do in order to return?  Where did he hang out 
during Voldy War I?  Where would he hang out when he returned?  (Do 
you think they could have kept an eye on the Riddle house??  
Maybe??)  It seems to me that DD should have spent the last 15 years 
looking for answers to these questions and maybe taking a few more 
precautions.

Nicky Joe