Guardian Dumbledore (was: Re: Dumbledore's Hypocrisy/Sirius and Kreacher)

[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 129242

>>Alla:
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>True, but there is a difference between making mistakes and acting 
stupid. You know, the difference between Dumbledore of PoA, who let 
Harry and Hermione go on the dangerous adventure which could kill 
them, Dumbledore of GoF,who let Harry compete in the tournament with 
large casualty rates  and Dumbledore of OOP is a bit much for me.<
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Betsy
You're exaggerating a bit about Harry's and Hermione's danger in PoA. 
(Some movie contamination perhaps?)  Dumbledore already knew that 
Buckbeack had been rescued.  He knew that no dead and/or mangled 
student bodies had been found following werewolf!Lupin's scampering 
off into the woods (which he does fairly quickly - and where Harry 
and Hermione were *not* waiting).  And he may well have had strong 
suspicions about who'd conjured the Patronus that saved Harry and 
Sirius down by the lake.  (One of Dumbledore's great strengths, I 
think, is his power of observation.)  Harry and Hermione were in very 
little danger that night, and I believe Dumbledore realized what had 
already been accomplished by time-traveling students.  All that was 
left was freeing Sirius.  Hardly a dangerous task when you've got a 
hippogriff on hand.

As to Dumbledore "letting" Harry compete in GoF, you're ignoring 
canon.  Harry was bound by a magical contract.

"He's got to compete.  They've all got to compete.  Binding magical 
contract, like Dumbledore said." (OotP scholastic hardback p. 278)

Dumbledore had no choice, otherwise Harry would have been withdrawn 
from the competition immediately.  I think Dumbledore was quite 
pleased with Harry's performance in the first two tasks (and why 
shouldn't he have been?), but he was not happy that someone had 
manipulated Harry into competing.  So he set one of the WW's most 
decorated Aurors (and trusted Order member) to protecting Harry.  And 
yes, that didn't end well, but fake!Moody fooled *everyone*.  And 
since you've conceded that Dumbledore does not equal God hopefully 
you'll cut him a break here. <g>

Betsy, who realizes this is her fourth post in a day and will scamper 
off quietly into the night herself. :)