In Defense of Scrimgeour & Offense against DD

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 179550

> Mike:
> It's not the book as written, but imagine if DD had spread the word 
> loud and wide that Lord Voldemort was really the half-blood Tom 
> Riddle, that he had split his soul several times and encased the 
> pieces in Horcruxes, that he had killed his own father and that you
> can tell one of his DEs by the Dark Mark on their left forearm. To
> me, it emphasizes how idiotic DD's way of fighting, including his 
> shutting out of the Ministry and all his secrecy.

Pippin:
So, there's nothing wrong with denouncing a person on account
of their race?  Funny how Dumbledore, whom  some
now seem  to think was capable of every horror, never sank that low.

Dumbledore did try to get the Ministry to realize that Morfin was the
wrong man, and everyone did know about the Dark Mark tattoo,
otherwise it could hardly have been used to intimidate people.
After Godric's Hollow the Dark Mark faded and in any case it
didn't tell who was serving Voldemort willingly and who was under
the Imperius curse, nor did all Voldemort's followers have it. We
don't know, for example, when Pettigrew got his dark mark, it
could have been after his return to LV.

 I assumed that Stan Shunpike was innocent and had been placed 
under the Imperius Curse by real DE's after he'd fallen into their 
hands during the mass breakout from Azkaban. He might have
been quite safe if he hadn't been falsely imprisoned in the first place.


Obviously JKR came up with horcruxes in the first place because
she needed a task that would be vital to defeat Voldemort but which
Dumbledore could believe that Harry and his friends
would need to  accomplish on their own (and which they could actually
do.) 

But after years of trying and failing to get the Ministry to
realize that Voldemort was outwitting it at every turn is it so
unrealistic that Dumbledore was sure that involving them in the
Horcrux hunt would do more harm than good?   Not to mention 
that a number of people who had torn souls might feel that a 
horcrux was a better way to prevent ending up in the afterlife
 with a damaged soul than having to repair themselves through
remorse. 

I was surprised and touched by the manner of Scrimgeour's
death, but he never asked Harry to rally the people to fight Voldemort.
He wanted them to think that Harry, the Chosen One, was going
to fight Voldemort, and they didn't have to do a thing but trust
the Ministry.

He wanted him to tell everyone what a good job the Ministry was
doing, and he wasn't the least bit interested in Harry's reasons
for thinking the Ministry wasn't  so hot. He didn't 
believe himself that Harry was the Chosen One, but he was cynically
willing to foster that belief if it would make people think that
they were safer.

I doubt he would have spread the story of the horcruxes if Harry 
had decided to share it with him.  It made the Aurors look bad--
each Horcrux was made through a murder the Ministry failed
to prevent and what's worse most of them had been blamed on
the wrong person --  that's not going to make people feel the
Ministry is their friend.

Pippin