Trust in Dumbledore WAS: Re: The Statute of Secrecy

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 158963

 a_svirn:
> > Actually, the events of HBP demonstrated that that's exactly the 
> > wrong attitude. It's no thanks to Dumbledore that his students 
are 
> > still alive. It's because Harry didn't do as he was bid and took 
> > necessarily precautions.
> 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Yes, a_svirn, I agree and I still keep hoping and keeping my 
fingers 
> crossed that one of the lessons of the books would be that second 
> hand trust, even in the wise and powerful leader is wrong, that 
> people should be thinking for themselves. 

a_svirn:
So do I!

> Alla:
> 
> I know we discussed this one over and over, but I am drawing a 
> blank, what were the suggestions about the *additional 
protection** 
> Dumbledore is talking about?

a_svirn:
Well, obviously Dumbledore stationed guards somewhere in the castle. 

"'Perhaps you ought to get on with the job alone,' suggested 
Dumbledore. 'What if your back-up has been thwarted by my guard? As 
you have perhaps realised, there are members of the Order of the 
Phoenix here tonight, too."

The problem is not that Dumbledore did not protect his school, but 
that his protection was not good enough. Just like the blood 
protection was not good enough. Worse even, he placed entirely too 
little trust in other people's judgment and entirely too much in his 
own.