Harry's Role in OotP (long) (was:Re: "Some won't like it"...)

[Eileen Nicholson]

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phoenixgod2000 says:
 
I still say that before OOTP Dumbledore was shown to deeply respect
Harry's abilities and accomplishments. I cannot square the actions of that man with the coward that I saw in OOTP. I mean for gods sake, he sent Harry back in time! two years ealier. It doesn't make any sense to me that the man who could do that was unable to do better in this book.

Eileen:

 
I haven't been able to see DD as a coward in OoP. He seems to me to be playing a difficult hand very carefully. I even see a touch of the Snape!performance in the office scene..... 
 
It seems to me that DD knew it was likely that Harry would go to the MoM from the outset of OoP, and the less information that Harry is given, the more likely he is to go - once Snape realised that Harry had been having the MoM dreams, DD would have been fairly certain that he'd go.  
 
My feeling is that DD knows Harry needs to learn Occlumency and Legilimens in order to deal more effectively with the link between himself and Voldemort, in order to take control of it, but this is a longer term aim and he is not expecting Snape's lessons with Harry to prevent him going to the MoM.
 
Both the Order members and DD arrived fairly promptly at the MoM - I think they were expecting the call; it was part of DD's plan to force VM out into the open. 
 
On balance, Sirius' death suits DD: He got Harry away from the 'danger' of being brought up by his nominated guardian by getting Hagrid to deliver him to Privet Drive and the Dursleys only to have him back on his hands after Peter Pettigrew returns to VM, and with increasing influence on Harry. Sirius vindicated and guardian of Harry is still very much a threat to DD's plans; Sirius loved and dead is a very important part of the process of turning Harry into a weapon for the Order against VM.  
 
At the end of OoP, DD knows that Harry is full of anger and grief, that he is starting to understand that the adults around him are not only not perfect, but that their intentions aren't  necessarily the same as his own. 
 
DD does two things - he gives Harry a suggestion about DD's own guilt in relation to the death of Sirius, and then gives him a lot of information about something that is bound to become the focus of Harry's thoughts because it centres on him - the prophecy. 
 
DD is, among other things, ensuring that when Harry focuses on Sirius' death (small picture) he will have the prophecy (big picture) context to place it in. Harry is currently blaming Snape for Sirus' death, but when if and when he recognises DD's involvement and does not understand the mitigating circumstances, it could lead to a dangerous breach between them - DD doesn't want to find himself up against the sharp end of his own Weapon!Harry 
 
Just a few thoughts. I only finished reading the books in February, so I'm still trying to play catchup and may have missed a lot of key posts - if anyone can point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it!
 
Eileen Nicholson
 
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