Dumbledore's Hypocrisy

[Shanoah Alkire]

No: HPFGUIDX 129238

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

> 
> But, from the very beginning, Dumbledore did see Kreacher's betrayal
> as a real possibility:  "I warned Sirius WHEN we adopted twelve
> Grimmauld Place as our headquarters that Kreacher must be treated 
> with kindness and respect.  I ALSO told him that Kreacher could be
> dangerous to us" (Ootp, Am. ed., 832 - emphasis mine).  

<snip> 

> So, it sounds to me that Dumbledore did see Kreacher as a real
> "danger." You can blame Dumbledore for accepting Sirius's offer of
> Grimmauld Place as headquarters, but I don't think you can argue 
> that he didn't warn Sirius about the dangers Kreacher presented.

Of course you could. Ron & Hermione refer to Dumbledore saying to
treat him with kindness, but the last part is never mentioned. Sirius
said that they couldn't free him because he knew too much, but didn't
attribute it to Dumbledore.

The quote you mentioned is Dumbledore essentially saying "I told you
so" well after the fact, when the one person who could definitely
confirm that statement is dead.

Not that I neccessarily think Dumbledore is a habitual liar. I just
wanted to point out that the case could be argued...