In Defense of Scrimgeour & Offense against DD

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 179571

 > 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.

a_svirn:
Where does his "denouncing a person on account of their race" come 
from? Even if you think the difference between half-bloods and pure-
bloods as "racial" – which is in itself a bit of a stretch –that 
wasn't the point Mike was making. The point is that the air of 
mystery that Voldemort was cultivating so carefully was and always 
had been instrumental to his success (Lee, Fred and Kingsley said the 
very same thing on Potterwatch, btw). Dumbledore helped him to 
cultivate it, there's no way around it. 

> Pippin:
 > Dumbledore did try to get the Ministry to realize that Morfin was 
the
> wrong man <snip>

a_svirn:
I don't remember that from canon.