Dumbledore's plans in HBP again WAS: Re: Cohesion

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 162284

> > Alla:
> > 
> > Are you sure that Weasleys would have understood? That is if 
> > Dumbledore would have told him the truth of why Ron died. Not - 
> > fighting the fight against Voldemort and his minions. **That** - 
I 
> > am pretty sure Weasleys would have been devastated, but 
understood. 
> > After all if parents joined that fight, they could hardly expect 
the 
> > kids to not learn their values and join the fight as well.
> > 
> > But if Ron would have died because Dumbledore wanted to teach 
Draco 
> > Malfoy who he is and whom he wants to become. That is why their 
> > child could have died.
> 
> Pippin:
> But that *is* the fight against Voldemort. The freedom to decide
> who you are and what you want to be is what Voldemort wants to take
> away from people. If the wizarding world decides it's not worth
> fighting for, then Voldemort wins. 

a_svirn:
And what does fighting Voldemort have to do with wanting to save 
Draco's immortal soul? 
> 
> Alla:
> > So, if that was a calculated risk, IMHO Dumbledore took into 
> > equasion the lives of those he had no right to gamble with.
> 
> Pippin:
> Dumbledore told all those in the Hall in GoF that he planned to 
> unite all those who were willing to oppose Voldemort  -- and
> his eyes were on the Slytherin table as he said it. He offered them
> a bond of friendship and trust. His strategy was no secret, and 
> those who disagreed with it were welcome to pull their children 
> out of Hogwarts. Some did.

a_svirn:
I fail to see what it has to do with anything. If he meant to risk 
his students' lives to foster the bond of friendship with Slytherins 
he should have had the decency to say so. Of course, the only 
students left in Hogwarts in that case would have been mugglebornes, 
and that only because their parents don't have the foggiest about 
the war.