Hogwarts Teachers - Lockhart (was History at Hogwarts) (was Re: Wizard Persecution )

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No: HPFGUIDX 126254


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hickengruendler" 
<hickengruendler at y...> wrote:
<SNIP> > 

> > > I agree that the whole blood protection thing is so riddled 
with 
> > > unanswered questions (e.g. exactly what did DD say to 
Petunia?), 
> > > plot holes (e.g. why don't the DEs just kill Harry while he's 
out 
> > of 
> > > the house at Muggle primary school?), 
>  
> Hickengruendler:
> 
> What reason do they have? Voldemort is gone. They don't know if he 
> will return. Many of them just escaped Azkaban by pretending they 
> were under the Imperius Spell. What reason do they have to attack 
the 
> Boy Who Lived, if they don't know if Voldemort will ever return. 
> After all, the really loyal Death Eaters were already in Azkaban.
> 
> Sorry, but I don't think it's a plot hole at all, and I'm slightly 
> surprised that you think it is, since it is in my opinion 100% 
> logical.

Well, did the DEs think Voldemort was gone for good?  I don't think 
we know that for sure.  Certainly Voldemort could communicate at 
least during some periods of his ten years as a wraith.  Did he 
communicate with some of the DEs?  I don't think we know.  This ties 
in with the question of Voldy's wand.  Did the DEs save it after he 
was killed?  Why did anybody do that if they didn't think he was 
coming back?

Besides, if Harry really wasn't in danger then Albus' moral burden 
becomes even larger.  If the answer to "where else could Harry have 
been safe those ten years?" was "Many places," as it would be were 
the DEs not out after him, then the only defense Albus has is "I 
thought Voldemort would be back, some day."  Let's see, ten years 
worth of child abuse while Albus knew Harry could be safe other 
places but he believed in Voldemort coming back some day.  So afraid 
was he he didn't even dare to intervene at Privet Drive while Harry 
was being abused.  Right.  Some wise, compassionate, insightful, 
unselfish epitome of goodness THAT is.  

And of course the future of the WW might be at stake, good of the 
many and all that.  Sorry, but that kind of calculus is 
reprehensible and indefensible.  From the wizarding side its "We'll 
let the kid suffer ten years of child abuse because Voldy MIGHT come 
back during those ten years and we MIGHT be in danger."  In that 
scenario, the Wizarding World, and Dumbledore, are so fundamentally 
morally compromised they aren't worth saving.  


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