Dumbledore the incompetent councilor

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"horridporrid03" <horridporrid03 at y...> wrote:

> When, exactly, did Dumbledore
> express smugness? [
] You'll have
> to quote canon for me here Eggplant 


'I know how you're feeling, Harry,' said Dumbledore very 
quietly. 

"The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength." 

'What don't I know?' asked Dumbledore calmly. 

'Let me out,' he said. He was shaking from head to foot.
'No,' said Dumbledore simply.

'Let me out,' Harry said yet again, in a voice that was cold and 
almost as calm as Dumbledore's. 
'Not until I have had my say,' said Dumbledore.

'Yeah, Snape told me,' Harry muttered. 
'Professor Snape, Harry' Dumbledore corrected him quietly. 
 
"Sirius did nothing to make Kreacher's lot easier" 

'Sirius did not hate Kreacher,' said Dumbledore. 'He regarded 
him as a servant unworthy of much interest or notice. 
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than 
outright dislike 
 the fountain we destroyed tonight told a lie. 
We wizards have mistreated and abused our fellows for too 
long, and we are now reaping our reward.' 

I don't think any of the above would be in a handbook on the best way
to handle a boy who has just lost someone he loved very much. Reading
that part of the book again really makes me want to punch Dumbledore
right in his stupid smug calm face; but Dumbledore was right about one
thing:

"you are not nearly as angry with me as you ought to be."

Eggplant