[HPforGrownups] Going back to discuss GOF.

[veroniki travlou]

No: HPFGUIDX 150044

Lisa <monalila662 at earthlink.net> wrote:    
>> <snip> I wanted to go back and discuss something that always 
troubled me in GOF. (Re Barty Crouch Jr. as Mad-Eye Moody.)  

AND ONE MORE THING... How is it that the greatest wizard alive (at 
the time) did not have any inkling whatsoever that this was a fraud? 
(referring to DD). 

AND, OK, MY LAST AND FINAL ALL CAPS QUESTION... going forward to HBP: 
If the time-turner was used to save Buckbeak and Siruis- why could it 
not be used to save the only wizard that Voldesnort ever feared? 
wouldn't it be absolutely critical to go back and save DD- if only 
for his knowledge of VM, in order to defeat him? I say  "Give Harry 
the Time Turner McGonagall- let him take his Felix Felicis with him 
and GO GET DUMBLEDORE!!!" <<


vera:
    
I've asked these questions many times myself, and I've come to the conclusion that the answers you get depends on the person who is giving them.

JK Rowling's picture has been contradictory as far as the greatest wizard of all times is concerned.  He seems to know what is happening to different people when he's absent either because he is indeed very intelligent and he can see through people or because he is very powerful as a wizard.   He seems to be so confident of his brain power that he doesn't see the obvious, one can say, or he has everything under control and knows what he's doing, as some can object. 
   
He appears to have known exactly what was going to happen in that cave and he went for it. Perhaps his time had already come and he knew it. If that was the case, WHY did he sacrifice himself for a locket that wasn't there??? What was the point?
   
Why did Rowling underline thoughout 6 that Dumbledore's greatest flaw is his tendency to trust unworthy people if she plans to reveal in 7 that in fact everything was planned and Dumbledore wasn't fooled after all???
   
One last thing, if Dumbledore was indeed taken in, what is that telling us as far as the character is concerned? That no one is perfect? Even the greatest wizards can be narrow-minded and cannot accept simple facts when people lower than them tell them to their face as Harry kept warning him of Snape?  Does this add to the plot? How???
  
Vera, who is losing her temper so I'd better leave it at that. Goodnight.