How Sirius' death suits Dumbledore?

[Eileen Nicholson]

No: HPFGUIDX 130560

>>Alla:

>Could you please clarify something for me? Are you saying that
Dumbledore KNEW in advance ( as in foreseeing the future or
something like that) that Sirius would die and did not do anything
to avoid him or you are simply saying that NOW when Dumbledore
evaluates the situation after the fact, Sirius' death suits him?

Because if it is the first one, I want to raise my very old problem
with such argument - I think this would make Dumbledore to be one of
the most idiotic generals in the history of literature. :-)

Consider very simple scenario - Harry LEARNS that Dumbledore
somehow played a direct part in Sirius' death.

Don't you think that Harry would refuse to fight for Dumbledore
cause if he learns that?

Now, if you are arguing the second scenario , well it very well
could be that Dumbledore decides that Sirius' death suits him, but
I am still not sure how, since even without Dumbledore's direct
involvement Harry is pretty mad him at the end of OOP and I am
thinking that Dumbledore would prefer the relationship between them
to be diffrent than it is now ( judging by the covers I hope it
would be better in HBP :-)) >>

Eileen: 

I don't think Dumbledore planned Sirius' death, although I have concerns that he appeared to be standing by and doing nothing while Sirius and Bella continued their fight at the MoM - perhaps there was no time to do anything (What, with all those time turners around the place? Cool it, Eileen, the chip on your shoulder is showing :-)) 

I think he believes that Sirius, having gone through the veil 'alive', is going to be of use to Harry in his dealings with Voldemort in some specific way that we don't have any information about, and I think that he is also aware that it makes death that much more acceptable to Harry, and has given him a directly experienced example of someone giving up their life for someone else. So, on the whole, he sees it as a positive.

I'm expecting that the information Harry now has is going to make him stop and think, and we should see some changes in his relationships going forwards. I think his blaming Snape was just an automatic reflex - he's so used to blaming Snape, it allows him to let off a bit of steam. But I expect he will start to have a better understanding of what is going on around him, enabling him to make better decisions and take more responsibility. So his relationship with Dumbledore will start growing again after the hiatus that was OoP, but this time evolving towards that of two equals. That has to be better, doesn't it?          

 






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