Dumbledore's decisions (was:Re: Depth? Things to take on their face value...)

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> > >>Sherry:
> > Don't get me wrong, I love Dumbledore.  But he is a far more     
 
> > interesting character with flaws, one who makes huge mistakes, 
than 
> > as the epitome of perfection and always being right.
> > <snip>
> 
> Betsy Hp:
> I think in this case, Dumbledore was like Churchill in WWII, <snip> 
They did the 
> best they could with what they had, and IMO, they made the right 
> call.  One I'm grateful I've never had to make.  But the very fact 
> they had to live with their decision and I'm sure hated that they 
had 
> to make that sort of choice means that neither are "the epitome of 
> perfection".


Alla:

Oh, I don't know about  the "best he could", Betsy. I am really not
so 
sure about it.

I mean, not to go back to Dursleys, but checking on Harry once in a 
while would have  been nice, especially since we know now that
Petunia 
did not have anything over Dumbledore's head - that he did not
promise 
her family some kind of protection in exchange for taking Harry , or 
something like that. ( Unless I am forgetting something, of course)

And I certainly do not think that Dumbledore did the best he could by 
Sirius, in fact I am more sure of it than with Harry's case, because 
as I said I am inclined to believe that Dumbledore indeed wanted
Harry 
to survive and maybe at least in Harry's case he had some misguided 
ideas that Dursleys WILL treat Harry as a son, because he asked  them 
to and because Petunia may have some scrap of humanity left in her, 
because she took Harry in.


In Sirius' situation though, Albus went against the very basics of 
Sirius' nature, when IMO it would have been easy enough to let Sirius 
do something useful for the Order either by Using invisibility cloak 
or in his animagus form, which was not widely known ( I mean some 
knew, but I think that if Sirius knew that he was doing something 
useful , he would have been more careful, IMO).

Instead he basically put Sirius' in  the house,which was more like a 
prison to him and which made him succimb to depression with amazing 
speed.

No, I don't think that was the best Albus could do.


JMO of course,

Alla