What mistakes Dumbledore made? Re: Loyalty & Trust

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 139809

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wrote:
> Besides, we have quite a few examples of Dumbledore trusting the 
> wrong people to fulfill DADA position.
> 

Pippin:
Oh, it doesn't look so bad now. We know that the position is jinxed,
apparently to bring out the worst in whoever holds it. How many of
us would still have our positions in a year under conditions like
that?

We also know that Dumbledore let Draco go about his business
even though he knew he was helping Voldemort, which sheds some
light on how DD could know about Quirrell and not interfere.
Lockhart, I believe, was *intended* to be a victim of the curse.
Lupin was allowed his second chance -- it's his *third* chance,
letting him rejoin the Order after he'd twice failed his trust, that
bothers me. Umbridge was never trusted. That leaves Fake!Moody,
who managed to hide his crimes. But   the second time he
endangered a student, Dumbledore did not need more proof.

Snape has many times made Harry unhappy. He has threatened to
do worse. But when has Snape *ever* between the time  he returned 
to Hogwarts and the events on the tower, endangered Harry or
any other child? We can't fault him for the failure of the occlumency
lessons any more, not if we're taking things at face value, right?

And at face value, a shove that knocks a boy to the ground and
a jarfull of cockroaches that misses is just a shove and a miss, not
an attempt at murder.

It seems to me that "face value" theorists have to extrapolate 
just as much as the rest of us to come up with a consistent 
position. :-)

Pippin