Order threatening Dursleys at the end of OOP

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 159801

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
>
> I just had a thought - as I wrote in the past, I used to think that 
> JKR would be much much better off without that scene because if she 
> wanted to maintain some kind of credibility over Dumbledore not 
> checking on Harry, well IMO that was not it. Thunderstorm did not 
> struck and Harry was not thrown out on the streets.
> 
> But I just thought that maybe indeed we do have the example of 
Order 
> members exercising independent thinking and doing what great Albus 
> Dumbledore did not approve of or at least did not know of, since he 
> is not here.
> 

Chuckle.  You mean the adults in the Potter series acting as 
something other than incompetent, unsupportive morons?  That would 
indeed be a first!

This does raise an interesting set of issues.  To what extent do the 
Order members know of DD's plans?  To what extent do they approve of 
them?  How often, if ever, do they "defy" Dumbledore even in small 
things?  How often would DD be better served by listening to them 
rather than playing the Sphynx?  We really know very little about the 
internal workings of the Order.  OOTP was badly misnamed, as we find 
out very little about the Order at all, and our ignorance is not 
lifted in HBP.

It will be interesting to see if the final book opens things up a 
little, or if the Order simply remains a "black box" for plot 
purposes.  My suspicion is the latter, but we will see.

Lupinlore, who once again marvels at how anybody can have any respect 
for the insensitive, unsupportive idiot adults who surround Harry