Dumbledore the General

[alshainofthenorth]

No: HPFGUIDX 124345


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "xcpublishing" 
<xcpublishing at y...> wrote:
> 
> Incredibly good point.  It only took the Marauders what... three 
> months? to become Animagi?  Sirius was twiddling his thumbs a lot 
> longer than that.  Keeping him locked up in 12GP was extremely 
> stupid - they surely could have found something for him to do, even 
> out of the country, I'm sure.  DD's philosophy seems to be "let's 
> keep everyone safe by locking them in little dark boxes and maybe 
LV 
> will leave them alone".
> 
> Nicky Joe

Alshain *clears throat after putting back the snipping scissors, 
having pruned very thoughtful posts to a measly detail*

The best part of three *years*. Britain would be overrun by Death 
Eaters if Dumbledore took his best fighters out of battle for that 
long and set them to learn the Animagus transformation.

Setting Sirius to do something else would IMO be like having a war 
horse plowing fields. Yep, it's something to do, but he wouldn't 
necessarily be any good at it and it wouldn't necessarily relieve his 
frustration. (In particular, I think he'd have made an even worse 
teacher than Snape.) Look at all the well-educated engineers, doctors 
and teachers who arrive to the industrialised world as political 
refugees and drive taxis or fry burgers for a living.

Alshain