[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore on the Dursleys in OotP (was:Re: Old, old prob...

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> Magpie:
> But I'd say obviously we're supposed to take  Harry's line of reasoning 
here 
> and get that Dumbledore knew what was  going on and let Harry have his 
> chance, and this is a good thing, not a  terrible thing as Hermione thinks. 
> And it works because in PS, imo,  Dumbledore is still in wise man mode.
He  *isn't* risking a child's life  recklessly because Harry is the hero of a 
> young adventure story and we  can trust Dumbledore's watching over the 
whole 
> thing.
 
 Nikkalmati:
Discussing whether DD set up Harry to go after the Stone.  IMO this in  one 
of a series of DD mistakes, part of what I think of as  FallibleDumbledore! DD 
would have been taking a huge risk with the fate of  the whole WW, if he 
planned for Harry to have a trial run at LV here.   Remember DD went to the MOM in 
response to an owl that had called him to a  nonexistent meeting and he only 
arrived back just in time.  The first risk  was that Harry would be killed: by 
the dog, or the plant or the keys or one of  the potions etc.  There goes the 
savior of the world.  There  also was a significant risk Harry once he had the 
Stone would be  forced to give it up (or even turn to LV's side as LV tries 
to persuade him  to do.  Of course we all know Harry would never do that <g>). 
If  Harry was one of the few people who could get the Stone out of the mirror, 
 because only someone who did not want to use it could get it,  then the  
Stone was in greater danger when Harry went after Quarrel.   DD could  not risk 
the Stone falling into the hands of LV, just to give Harry a  pretest.   I 
think JKR had a pretty good idea of where she was going  with her characters from 
the beginning and any ideas we had about them that  turned out to be wrong 
were the result of her deliberate obfuscation.  She  certainly can take a 
traditional theme and turn it inside out.
Nikkalmati  


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