DD and Delores (Was: Bad Writing?)

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 163118

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Melanie <ladymela99 at ...> wrote:
>
> I found Dumbledore in a way more selffish in book five.  I realize 
> he was doing this prevent his death..figuring he would still be 
> needed.  <snipped> ...in the short term, it is  correct to say that 
> Dumbledore  was looking at his own self interests  and seemingly 
> ignoring Harry's. 



Hi Melanie! DD's actions in OotP, as unwise as they were, never 
seemed selfish to me. What he did (or rather didn't do), he did 
mostly to protect Harry. At least this is how DD explains it 
himself:"I was trying, in distancing myself from you, to protect you".
 
Next he says:"Voldemort's aim in possessing you, as he demonstrated 
tonight, would not have been my destruction. It would have been 
yours. He hoped, when he possessed you briefly a short while ago, 
that I would sacrifice you in the hope of killing him" (p.828, US).

I don't think DD is lying here. I'm one of the people who still like 
Dumbledore, and I refuse to believe that he is *that* hypocritical. I 
think he should have found the way to let Harry know what was going 
on, even if he didn't want to take the risk and talk to him in 
person. That was not very smart, IMO, but I still don't think DD 
acted like this only to "prevent his death", as you say.

Take care, Melanie!

zanooda