[HPforGrownups] Re: Percy Brasco?.

[ReturnOfTheMutt at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 121551

 
In a message dated 1/9/2005 6:06:06 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
bboyminn at yahoo.com writes:

Umbridge  on the otherhand acted with total disregard for any harm, and
physical and  psychologial pain she may cause, whether that harm be
small as in  subverting the education process, or large as in illegally
and without  mercy or true provocation attempting to utterly destroy
Harry (equal to  cold-blooded murder in my book) because he was saying
things that were  /inconvenient/ to the Ministry.


Mary sez:  Harry was being watched while at the Dursley's.  It  would be 
completely irresponsible of Dumblerdore for the higher ups in the OOtP  not to 
have known what was going on at their house.  So, Dumbledore, for  the greater 
good, left Harry in a situation where he suffered because the fact  that it set 
Harry up to be the saviour of the wizarding world made it  right.  It was for 
the greater good, and what happened to Harry in the  meantime was irrevelant.
 
Umbridge was trying to uphold what she thought of as good. The only  
difference between Umbridge's actions and Dumbledore's actions are a) we *know*  that 
Dumbledore is right, and b) Dumbledore didn't commit any harm with his own  
hands.


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