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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 126334


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" 
<bob.oliver at c...> wrote:
  Absent more evidence about his thoughts and actions during 
> those ten years, I think it is perfectly plausible to think he 
> approached this as a way to keep his essential weapon locked 
up  safely -- and if it gets banged up a little in the process, well 
 that's not anything to worry about.  In other words, in the great  
battle between what's good and what's right, Albus just closed 
his  eyes, stuck gum in his ears, and took the easy way out.
<snip>
  If it turns out that Albus underwent a great deal of 
> tension and turmoil over this situation, and that he had 
perfectly  good evidence that Harry was in immediate danger that 
he could not have shielded him from even at Hogwarts, then he's 
off the hook.   But I have to admit, it ain't looking good for him at 
the moment.<

Pippin:
Sorry, but  we already know that any DE who was willing to risk 
creating a portkey could  spirit Harry away from Hogwarts at any 
time. Privet Drive appears to be a different story, at least 
Voldemort in GoF is definite that his plans to kidnap Harry 
couldn't have been put into effect while Harry was there.

But I think what appears to be the lack of turmoil and tension is a 
cultural difference. If Job had been an Englishman of the old 
school, he would have sunk his head in his hands and shed a 
single tear, by which other gentlemen of the old school would 
have known that he was  utterly overcome by his grief. Sackcloth, 
ashes, breastbeating and going to sit on the dunghill would have 
struck them as foreign excess. 

Pippin