Cold Fish Dumbledore

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 154177

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> 
wrote:
>
> I've been thinking further on the notion that Dumbledore may have
> started out with a pathology similar to Tom Riddle's. It explains
> some things I've been wondering about -- why did Dumbledore 
>  think that Voldemort would simply assume that there was no 
> special relationship between him and Harry? and why did Voldemort 
> decide to go after Dumbledore at the end of OOP when he'd been 
> afraid to attack him for so many years?  
> 
> If Voldemort saw in Dumbledore the one person who was like himself,
> and *that* is why Voldemort feared him, then it makes sense that
> Voldemort would lose that fear when he discovered that Dumbledore
> had become "one of those fools who love" after all. 
> 
> Some additional canon, besides all the detached behavior towards
> Sirius and Hagrid, and DD's  determination to pretend to be 
detached > from Harry:
> 

Tonks:
Just because you can know how a psychopath thinks doesn't mean that 
you *are* one yourself.  Once a psychopath, always a psychopath.  
That is the only type of Personality Disorder that can not be fixed. 
The damage is done very early in infancy.  If a person can't bond 
with other, they can never bond with others.  So DD was *never* like 
LV!!

DD just doesn't wear his heart on his sleeve.  He is a man.  And old 
school.

As to why LV came to fight DD. DD was fighting Bella and she needed 
help. Now we can ask why he didn't just leave her to die or be 
arrested???  

Tonks_op