Dumbledore the Strategist (Re: Has anyone thought that Dumbledore knows...)

[monika_zaboklicka]

No: HPFGUIDX 130541

> >>Michael (mggoulden):
> [Dumbledore's] positively ludicrous decision to entrust an innocent 
man's fate to two 13 year-old wizards, and something is decidedly 
fishy.<

Laying aside question of Black's perceived innocence (why the hell 
NOBODY protested when he was being thrown to Azkaban for life?) I 
always supposed that Harry and Hermione were chosen for the task 
because they were innocent and 13 (i.e. underage and not liable to 
ministry prosecution). An adult wizard caught with Buckbeak on a lash 
would have serious trouble with the Ministry, children risked only 
failure, not legal problems.

> Betsy Hp:
> Plus, Dumbledore has very little people he can trust at this point 
in 
> PoA.  Lupin is off in the Forbidden Forest, baying at the moon,  
> Hagrid is off drinking somewhere, and Snape is at the very end of 
his 
> tether <snip>

There were two other adult wizards who knew all about timeturner, 
were (unlike Hagrid) highly skilled proffesionals and could be 
trusted completely: Minerva McGonagall and himself, Albus Dumbledore.
 
> Dumbledore himself can do nothing or he will be under 
> immediate suspicion. 

He wasn't, even after all that Harry and Hermione had done, and he 
was an accomplice. Who would notice that Headmaster had disappeared 
for a second and who would ask questions how long this second lasted 
for him? On the other hand, if he was seen freeing Buckbeak or 
Sirius... yes, I can quite understand why he sent kids. 
And, mark you, he aced fair. Even if somebody dragged Harry and 
Hermione in by their ears, screaming that something must be done 
about those two young *#%! who free criminals, DD could kindly ask 
him not to manhandle his students and promise heavy punishments for 
themischief-makers.