Trust in Dumbledore WAS: Re: The Statute of Secrecy

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 159046

> Tonks:
> 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.  

a_svirn:
Yes, McGonagall sought him out and asked for explanations. And did 
Dumbledore give them? No, he didn't. Instead he deliberately misled 
her. First, about what really happened at Godric Hollow, and second, 
why he left Harry to the Dursleys. By HBP she certainly knew that 
Dumbledore wasn't what you might call forthcoming with her, but does 
she resent it? Nope, she still thinks that Dumbledore is above 
reproach. Of course, as a reprisal for insubordination being lied to 
definitely beats being tortured and killed, but it still leaves a 
lot of space for improvement. 

> Tonks:
> 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.  

a_svirn:
Maybe not. But efficiency isn't everything. Besides, Dumbledore 
hadn't even the excuse of being efficient.  

> Tonks:
The whole idea of "questioning authority" has gone a bit 
> overboard.  And it is a new idea in the past 30 years. 

a_svirn:
Well, you are quite wrong about that. Democracy goes back muuuuch 
farther than 30 years. 

> Tonks:
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.

a_svirn:
Yes, well, it's only the late 20th century in the WW. So what? They 
have all the necessary institutions, haven't they? Well, the 
judicial branch of government probably leaves something to be 
desired but even so it's hardly the Dark Ages.