[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore the Godfather

[IreneMikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 173528

eggplant107 wrote:
> Dumbledore the Godfather. I'm not talking about a Sirius Black sort of
> Godfather I'm talking about a Don Vito Corleone sort of Godfather.
> Dumbledore could be mighty cold blooded when he needed to be! 

Dear Eggplant, I'd like to start with expressing my enormous respect to 
you. From all the anti-Snape people I had such fun arguing before DH, 
you took the revelations in book 7 with the utmost grace.

Now to the business of scary Dumbledore and Sirius. I think JKR, without 
ever meaning too, gave us an answer as to why Dumbledore was not so 
eager to get Sirius a fair trial. Sirius, if he was free, and caught a 
whiff of Dumbledore's plans concerning Harry, would have killed 
Dumbledore - Elder wand or not. Or smuggled little Harry to a tropical 
country, at the very least, and wizarding world be damned.

I wonder if Dumbledore was not secretly very pleased with book 5 finale 
as well.

Irene