The Statute of Secrecy

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 158997

--- Janette <jnferr at ...> wrote:
>
> > a_svirn:
> >
> > Besides, whether or not phoenixes could stop the 
> > invasion, surely, Dumbledore's place should have been 
> > in his school when the invasion occurred. If only he
> > listened to Harry he would have been there.
> 
> 
> montims:
> and isn't it ironic that the night planned for the 
> invasion was the night DD just HAD to go along and 
> retrieve the horcrux (which wasn't going anywhere, and
> in fact turned out not to be the genuine article, 
> although he couldn't have known that).  I do wonder how
> that night would have played out if Harry and DD hadn't
> left Hogwarts...
> 
> 

bboyminn:

Off on a slighty tangental subject, didn't the 'invasion' 
occur /because/ Dumbledore was gone. Just my 
interpretation but I was under the impression that the 
fact that Draco fixed the cabinet and Dumbledore being 
gone occurring on the same night was coincidental.

Draco fixed the cabinet (Wha-Hoo) and then recieved word
that Dumbledore had left the castle, that created the
perfect opportunity to summon the DE's that had been
assigned to the project and the plan went forward from
there. And it does seem as if indeed there was a plan. 
They knew in advance that they were going to set off the
Dark Mark to lure Dumbledore back to the castle, and that
was how they were going to lure him to his death. 

Draco fixing the Cabinet was the first opportunity the 
DE's had to even consider implementing /their plan/, and
just coincidentally, that was the very night Dumbledore
left the castle. Which, Dumbledore leaving the castle, in 
turn opened the door to initiating /the plan/.

As to the previous assertion that Dumbledore's rightful 
place was at the castle defending it, not out 
gallivanting about on wild-goose chases, I think that is
dead wrong. Dumbledore is doing important work in chasing
the Horcruxes. Further Dumbledore is a human being, not a
robot. He has a right to a life, and going to the village
for a drink, which was his pretense for leaving the 
castle and what the DE's took his actions to be, was well
within his right to have a life. It is unreasonable to 
think that Dumbledore or any other school administrator
should be a prisoner in his own school just on  the off 
chance that it might be attacked. Even in wartime, life
goes on.

Note that Dumbledore did have extra guards in the castle,
and since several teachers were involved in the fight, he
probably had assigned them to patrol the hallway acting 
as additional guards to aid the Aurors and Order members
on Duty. Harry, unknown to Dumbledore, had set his own
guard to watch specific strategic locations which as it
turned out was a wise thing to do. So, Dumbledore did not
leave the castle unprotected in his absents, and his 
absents WAS important to the greater good and safety of 
every one.

Just a few thoughts.

Steve/bboyminn