In Defense of Scrimgeour & Offense against DD

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 179546

> lizzyben:
> After the funeral, he again asks Harry to help to raise people's 
> morale, & offers Aurors as protection for Harry. And Harry rudely 
> cuts him off & repeats that he's "DD's man." Oh, oh, he also 
repeats 
> DD's sickening slogan from COS about showing personal loyalty to 
> Him.

a_svirn:
And in the end that final assessment of Snape's character? "Severus 
Snape wasn't yours, he was Dumbledore's". And that of course says it 
all, does it? Whatever Snape had done during the wars and in-between 
his ultimate loyalty to Him was his indulgence. 

Mike:
Thank you lizzyben. Call me thick, but I never really understood
when folks were talking about "cult of personality" with
regards to the books. Something clicked when you wrote this post.
I get it now. And I see it clearly.

a_svirn:
And speaking of cults, the one of the things that galled me in HPB 
and DH is that the Order of the Phoenix is actually more like a 
religious sect, than a resistance group. There is The Chosen One – 
Harry and His Prophet – Dumbledore. And there is this Mystery of the 
Prophesy, the esoteric knowledge that only Harry and Dumbledore 
share. The others aren't worthy to know.  The organization's single 
goal seems to be ensuring that Harry fulfill his Destiny whatever it 
is. The destiny of all the lesser mortals is of very little interest 
to the Order. Where is the organized underground network for the 
muggle-borns protection for instance? That wizard (Dirk Cresswell?) 
from the Goblin Liasons Office got away because Dawlish had been 
thoroughly Confounded as a part of Harry's Protection plan. Why 
nobody thought of confounding Yaxley and Co? Why nobody tried to help 
the people whose wands were confiscated? Surely they could find some 
second-hand wands for them? Or even brand new ones for that matter. 
Grigorovotch was still alive at the beginning of DH, and there must 
have been other wand-makers in other countries. Why couldn't they 
organize help-line for those who were forced to beg? And so on. The 
answer is simple – because it was all about Harry, the object of 
their cult. If Harry was alive there was hope of salvation. So they 
only concentrated on keeping him alive. When they couldn't do even 
that, they resorted to prayers on the "Potterwatch".