VA/H=Mx13+RP? (was: Was the eavesdropper unimportant to Harry?)

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 147177

> Jen wrote: 
> JKR promised some fallout in book 7 due to an emotional mistake
> by Dumbledore.
  
> Julie:
> I don't recall JKR saying this. Was it during an interview?


Jen: That was my short-version interpretation of comments from the 
TLC/MN interview, not certain if everyone would intepret it that 
way? (More on how I got there after the quote.)

ES: I know Dumbledore likes to see the good in people but he seems 
trusting almost to the point of recklessness sometimes.

[Laughter] Yes, I would agree. I would agree.

ES: How can someone so -

JKR: Intelligent -

ES: be so blind with regard to certain things?

JKR: Well, there is information on that to come, in seven. But I 
would say that I think it has been demonstrated, particularly in 
books five and six that immense brainpower does not protect you from 
emotional mistakes and I think Dumbledore really exemplifies that.

<END QUOTE>

Jen again: I read that to mean there would be more in book 7 about 
Dumbledore 'trusting almost to the point of recklessnes' and that 
like in books 5 & 6, it would be a situation where his immense 
brainpower didn't protect him from an emotional mistake.

Now if this meaning is correct, I was thinking over the possible 
situations not explained yet like Grindelwald, Godric's Hollow, or 
his trust of Snape. Or regarding trust of Snape, the emotional 
mistake might have been in trying to protect Snape and vouch for him 
*so* completely that Dumbledore ended up endangering the mission of 
a DDM!Snape, a Snape needing to work with a now mistrustful Harry 
and the Order.

Jen, hoping that reads more clearly than it sounds to her ears this 
morning.