Aberforth and Albus too.

[hickengruendler]

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Alla:
 
> And do not get me wrong, I did like Dumbledore after book 7. I do not 
> think he was evil or anything like that. I feel for him.
> 
> But the extent of his manipulations while certainly did not bother me 
> in regard to Snape ( NOT because I did not see Dumbledore behaving  
> as jerk to Snape, I did, I just thought it was something that Snape 
> more than deserved) that certainly bothered me in regards to Harry. 
> Did he really raise Harry to die? If he did, I find it despicable. I 
> mean, I have no doubt that after GoF he guessed that Harry would not 
> die, but would be nice to know when exactly he learned that Harry is 
> a horcrux.

Hickengruendler:

This is why I said, it was not Dumbledore, who made Harry into a marked 
man, it was Voldemort. Dumbledore was the one, who had to deal with the 
situation. I don't know, when Dumbledore found out, that Harry was a 
Horcrux, my guess is around "Chamber of Secrets", when he suspected the 
diary to be one, (surely it must have been prior to Voldemort's 
rebirth, otherwise the gleam of triumph makes no sense), but I don't 
think he was raising Harry to die. He might have thought, that it could 
happen one day, but he tried his best not to think about it. And prior 
to Voldemort's rebirth, it was still a very abstract situation. 
Dumbledore might have believed, that Voldemort would return some day, 
but there was the still the glimmer of hope, that it might not happen. 
And the moment Voldie did return, a possible way out was presented to 
Dumbledore. 

IMO, Dumbledore was just a man, who had to deal with a situation, that 
Voldemort created, and it was not an easy one. Should he have told 
Harry earlier, when the boy had just found happiness in his life? (And 
yes, I realise, that the fact that Harry wasn't happy for 10 years was 
to a big part Dumbledore's fault, but I'm only talking about the 
Horcrux situation right now. ;-) ) I know he seems incredibily cold in 
that particular scene in the Pensieve, but at this point he already 
knew (or suspected), that Harry would live. His behaviour was much more 
about Snape than it was about Harry, here.

Hickengruendler