DD and Horcruxes/ Scrimgeour

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 179615

> > a_svirn:
> > Why on earth should *Dumbledore* be traumatised by Pettigrew's 
> > betrayal? It's not like Pettigrew was his friend. I think he had 
been 
> > traumatised by Grindenwald's betrayal, yes, but if what happened 
to 
> > him when he was eighteen made him incapable to trust people at 
all 
> > even a century later, it's just too bad, isn't it? The order of 
the 
> > Phoenix would have done better with less traumatised leader. Then 
> > again, it probably wouldn't have been an "order" at all, but a 
well-
> > organised Resistance.
> >
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Whether he should be or not, of course depends on how much decency 
you 
> think Dumbledore has in himself. 

a_svirn:
Actually, my point was that Pettigrew did not betray *Dumbledore*. He 
betrayed James and Lilly. And since Dumbledore wasn't betrayed there 
is no reason for him to be traumatised. This time. 

> Alla:
> Now, maybe whole trauma was that Pettigrew outsmarted him and not 
> because he felt the slightest bit of sorry for Sirius' sufferings, 
I do 
> not know that, but yes, I believe it is possible he was traumatised.

a_svirn:
But it wasn't *him* whom Pettigrew outsmarted. It was Sirius. Who 
sure was traumatised by the whole thing. 

> Alla:
> And hmmm, I would certainly agree with you that Order would have 
done 
> better with another leader, but when I sat down and thought, the 
> question is who would that be?

a_svirn:
I think that the WW would have done better without the Order 
altogether. I don't like this organisation. As I said upthread (or 
perhaps it was another thread), it looks more like a religious sect, 
than a resistance group. I suppose that for a position of the Prophet 
of the Chosen One Dumbledore was indeed the only candidate. Not 
surprisingly since he was the one to have created both of these 
posts.