Trust in Dumbledore WAS: Re: The Statute of Secrecy

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 159012

> a_svirn:
> Now, Dumbledore, he had a much nicer deal. He was the law onto 
> himself and loved it. Actually he had a better deal than any 
> Minister for Magic too. Just think – a big family scandal and 
Crouch is out of the running. One major screw-up – and Fudge is out 
of his  office. But Dumbledore failed time after time, year after 
year, and, although he got fired from Wizengamot and lost twice his 
> headmastership (after all those were *official* offices), his 
> position as a leader of the Order was untouchable and unshakable, 
> and the style of his leadership wasn't supposed to be criticized. 
> And why? Because other phoenixes simply abjured all 
responsibility.  They were content to leave the whole "business of 
knowing" to him. Personally, I don't think much of this kind of 
attitude. I agree with Churchill: "Democracy is the worst form of 
government, except for all those other forms that have been tried 
from time to time."
>

Tonks:
I don't understand all of this "DD is a dictator" talk.  I do not 
see him that way at all.  DD is the most intelligent, most 
knowledgeable, greatest wizard of his time and has personal charisma 
that makes most of us love him.  He is the natural leader.  He is 
not a dictator. LV is.  

McGonagall doesn't seem to have any problem asking DD about his 
decisions, such as when she questions his decision to put Harry with 
the Dursleys.  She is able to talk freely to him.  Do you think for 
a moment that any of LV's followers could do that?  They would be 
dead on the spot.  LV is a dictator.  DD is not.  DD allows people 
like Snape to argue with him.  That would never happen with LV.  
LV's word is law, period. DD is very easy going, he doesn't sweat 
the small stuff.  

There is a joke about the redemption of the world that says "thank 
God that he didn't send a committee".  The idea being that sometimes 
a liberal democracy is not the most efficient manner to get the job 
done.  The whole idea of "questioning authority" has gone a bit 
overboard.  And it is a new idea in the past 30 years. It is not how 
most of the world or even the U.S. was run up until that time.  
Families, businesses, government, etc. were run with a chain of 
command, do as you are told style of leadership. And the WW is in 
that era, not in the 21st century.  We seem to keep forgetting that.

And I don't see DD "failing time and time again" either. He gets a A 
from me.  I think that the members of the Order have a lot of 
respect for DD. He it the founder and the leader. If I founded an 
Order I would expect to be the leader too. And I would *lead* it!!

Tonks_op