A Question for Dumbledore's critics

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 124682


I think there's general agreement that Dumbledore should be 
treating Harry like an adult and a potential leader of the Order.
Okay. But adults can't let their responsibilities go because they 
are grieving and generals can't let their admiration for their men 
blind them to their weaknesses. In fact these are the mistakes 
Dumbledore says he made: trying too hard to spare Harry's 
feelings, and overestimating Snape.

So it seems to me in that last speech he was doing what his 
critics want to see him do: treating Harry as an adult by making 
him shoulder the knowledge of the prophecy, and preparing 
Harry to be a general by trying to make him see that Sirius had 
some weaknesses which should be acknowledged. It might be 
argued that Sirius's weakness don't matter if he is dead. But 
Sirius is not the only person in canon who has a tendency to 
spout off about the rights of others while ignoring them in 
practice (cough*Hermione*cough).

Pippin