Dumbledore the General

[phoenixgod2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 124328




> 
> Alla:
> 
> Ummm, don't you think that Sirius being ALIVE in ANY kind , shape 
or 
> form is better for Harry than dead Sirius? Harry blames Dumbledore 
> too for ignoring the basics of Sirius nature and keeping him 
locked 
> up. So, it is possible that Sirius' death will make Harry more 
> motivated to kill Voldemort OR ( which I see as equally likely 
> scenario) Sirius' death may be just the thing Harry needs to tell 
> Dumbledore to leave him alone.

As much as I want to see the second one happen, I think Harry is 
going to end up sucking up his pain for the greater good, push it 
under the rug, probabbly apologize to Snape, to go after LV.

And I have very little desire to see that happen.
 
> Alla:
> 
> Eh? Dumbledore left a traumatised boy alone during whole summer 
> aftre GoF and completely closed any channels of information for 
him.
> 
> At the end of OOP, Dumbledore pulled as Renee said "blame the 
victim 
> act" and gave Harry a lecture about how badly Sirius treated 
> Kreacher. ( Die, Kreacher, die now. :)) I call Dumbledore's 
handling 
> of Harry's grief " in very poor taste" at best.

All I can say to this is Amen, Alla. I can explain away a lot of 
things I don't like about DD as a result of the story JK is trying 
to write, but I can't do that about this.  DD's indictment of Sirius 
literally moments after the man died was the most hideous thing I 
read in OOTP. I cannot fathom what the man was thinking. When that 
happened I dropped the book for five minutes to rant about what I 
would say to DD if he said that to me. Ugh!


> Alla:
> 
> I cannot disagree more about this statement. I think Dumbledore 
> either does not care AT ALL about Harry's emotional well-being OR 
he 
> has no clue whatsoever about how to improve Harry's emotional well-
> being. 

I think DD did a good initial job of helping Harry at the end of GoF 
but he really dropped the ball afterwards, IMO. Leaving Harry by 
himself without any real contact with people was just stupid. But 
that's another thread that I've already talked about enough.

On the larger topic of this thread, I really want to learn more 
about Grindlewald and how DD beat him. Have there been any 
interviews or chats where JK has mentioned if that's going to get 
talked about at all? I think learning how DD beat the last Dark Lord 
would be a good indicator of his battle strategy and mindset.

And just for the record, I think that Voldemort was a pretty bad 
strategist on his own. Either DD or LV coming up against a competent 
war leader would get spanked, IMO. 

phoenixgod2000, who is far too sick to fully particpate in the 
thread he started, but is still present for every post in spirit.

Stupid flu!