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[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 159816


>>> Sherry:
>>> In other words, are you saying that you think Dumbledore, Snape
>>> and Abe, purposely, coldly and with definite malice aforethought,
>>> set up an innocent family, a child?  If this scenario is true, it
>>> makes Dumbledore into a monster equal to Voldemort.  The way I'm
>>> reading what you're saying is that DD told Snape what to say to
>>> Voldemort.  He couldn't possibly have thought this would not cause
>>> Voldemort to go after children born as the seventh month dies.  I
>>> don't think JKR could conceivably call Dumbledore the epitome
>>> of goodness and then try to have us swallow this scenario.



   KJ writes:

     I still remember Dumbledore saying to Harry,"more for your life 
than the lives that might be lost if my plan failed..." and "What did I 
care if nameless and faceless people and creatures were slaughtered in 
the vague future, if in the here and now you were alive, and well, and 
happy"?

     This sentence makes it obvious to me that Harry was a sacrifice to 
the greater good from the beginning.  It was only after getting to know 
Harry that he began to have a little trouble with his conscience.  I 
think that it would be totally ironic if one of our issues in this 
series is to actually separate the epitome of good and the epitome of 
evil. They are perhaps much the same. To me, Dumbledore makes it plain 
that Harry's life is likely to be forfeit in the interests of preserving 
thousands of others.

     In the same way, Snape is bad and Lupin is good, but many of us 
have doubts about the accuracy of that as well.  Perhaps Snape was 
equally against Dumbledore's plans as he was Voldemort's and is treading 
a very fine line in serving both masters while trying to keep Harry in 
one piece, if not exactly happy.

  KJ