DD and Horcruxes/ Scrimgeour

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 179558

Alla:
> 
> I mean, Mcgonagall, his Deputy Headmistress, and he **still** did not 
> trust her. I mean, I never bought into evil Minerva theories, but I 
> certainly understand how those theories came to life.
> 
> I mean, WHY why would Dumbledore not trust her of all people? It fits 
> for me with his character, but it certainly does not fit for me with 
> any logic.

Pippin:

McGonagall would have been honored to keep any secret  entrusted
to her, IMO,  but considering her idea of how to conceal that Harry was 
getting his own broom in PS/SS and the fact that she looked "very odd"
in a Muggle dress and coat (OOP) , stealth and undercover work don't  
seem to have been her forte. Entrusting secrets to her would put her 
in needless peril. 

Anyway what good would it have done to know that Harry needed something
of Ravenclaw's? People had been seeking the lost diadem for a thousand 
years with no luck, just as they'd been seeking the Chamber of Secrets.

Harry had a way with outcasts, with Myrtle and Helena, that Dumbledore 
and McGonagall, those pillars of The Establishment, could never have. 

> 
> Pippin:
> <SNIP>
> 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?
> <SNIP>
> 
> Alla:
> 
> But I think he ought to at least try when new minister came along, 
> maybe they would have understood each other, or maybe not.

Pippin:
Scrimgeour didn't just 'come along', he was mentioned in OOP ch 7 as
asking  questions about Sirius. He and Dumbledore surely knew
each other well enough. Scrimmy was apparently willing to
entertain the idea that Voldemort might have come back, but not
to question the guilt of either Sirius or Stan Shunpike at the expense 
of making his department look bad. If Scrimgeour didn't care 
about their welfare why should he be entrusted with Harry's?

Even with our Muggle-ish grasp of horcrux lore most of us realized
there was a good chance that Harry had inadvertently become
one. Surely Scrimgeour would have drawn the same conclusion --
do you think he'd have seen the situation as Dumbledore did?
Would he have trusted that Harry's power of love and those who
loved him would have the best chance of resisting
their powers, which were sure to grow as Voldemort himself
grew stronger? Or would he have destroyed the one horcrux
he could be sure of getting at?


Pippin
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