looong - musings on Dumbledore - Even Longer

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 158656

James Lyon <jnoyl@> wrote:
>  
> > Can ANYONE think of ANY ACTION that DD has taken meddling in
Harry's life that was actually of any net benefit to Harry?
> 
> Geoff:
> In mitigation, may I offer at least one instance?
> 
> When Harry came off his broom in the Gryffindor-Hufflepuff Quidditch
match in POA, Dumbledore stopped him from crashing into the ground.
> (POA "Grim Defeat" pp.134-36 UK edition)
>
Carol adds:
And here's another. If Dumbledore hadn't suggested that Hermione and
Harry use the Time Turner, not only would Buckbeak have been executed
and Sirius Black soul-sucked by the Dementors, Harry and Hermione
would also probably have lost their souls. Timeturned!Harry could not
have cast the Patronus to save himself and Sirius (and Hermione, who
was with them) if not for Dumbledore. (Snape woke up too late to do
it, though he did conjure the stretchers.)

Carol, who is glad that Dumbledore is neither perfect nor omniscient
and wonders where the impulse to bash Dumbledore is coming from