Dumbledore the Counselor (was: Dumbledore the General)

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No: HPFGUIDX 124367


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03"
<horridporrid03 at y...> wrote:

> Betsy, who blushes at the length of this post and wonders if anyone 
> will actually read this far.

Are you kidding?  That was brilliant.  

I'm not sure if I agree about Harry "bullying" his way back into the
action, though.  There seems to be a pattern of: 

'keep Harry uninformed and out of the action' 

'the action comes to Harry who seeks adult intervention but can't ever
seem to get any help from a grownup when the feathers really hit the fan' 

in all the books, including OotP.  How would telling Harry the
prophesy sooner have helped keep Sirius alive?  No matter what kind of
confrontation with Voldemort Harry got into, Sirius would have run to
save him and risked his life in the process.  Even telling Harry his
concern that Voldemort might try to spy on Dumbledore through the
connection he shares with Harry would probably not have done much
good.  After the attack on Mr. Weasley, it's Ginny who reaches and
reassures Harry in a way that I doubt Dumbledore could have done.

So what am I saying.  Hmmmm......  I'm not sure that telling Harry the
prophesy sooner would have saved Sirius.  And while Dumbledore admits
to overprotecting, if not underestimating Harry, I'm not yet ready to
concede that it was a mistake.