DD's dilemma (was: Hogwarts Teachers - Lockhart)

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 126316


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" 
<susiequsie23 at s...> wrote:
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> 
> SSSusan:
> But how could anyone ever KNOW those particulars?  Isn't it always 
> the risks, the possibilities, the odds which one has to deal 
with?  

I didn't say he had to KNOW them.  I said he had to BELIEVE them, 
and that we needed to be shown that, along with his evidence for 
these beliefs.  We just don't know enough.  But the evidence ain't 
good for Albus.


> If the potential negative consequences were minor, fine, be 
> aggressive and take some chances.  If the potential negative 
> consequence is horrendous [i.e., loss of the WW's one potential 
> Voldy-killer], then doesn't it behoove you to be conservative and 
> extra-cautious?

And turning a blind eye to child abuse is a minor consequence?  I 
suppose if you (generic you, not you personally) ARE talking about 
Harry as a weapon rather than a human being, one could see the abuse 
as a minor consequence. From the evidence we have Albus might be 
thinking about Harry as a weapon.  If that is the case, it is a good 
argument.  It is also morally reprehensible and he deserves some 
severe consequences for that lapse.  As I've said, it isn't enough 
to get Albus off the hook to show that he had reasons.  To get him 
out from under the moral burden it needs to be shown that he paid 
attention to the consequences of his decision and cared about them 
and that he honestly BELIEVED that Harry WOULD have died -- not that 
he "might" have died "if" Voldemort returned -- if he intervened to 
stop the Dursleys child abuse.

Lupinlore