Dumbledore the Godfather

[eggplant107]

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Debbie wrote:

> Would you rather DD allow Harry to face Voldemort
> without any  defenses? Would you rather Harry not
> have known the prophesy? That he be treated like
> any other kid at Hogwarts and, when this really
> mean Voldy  tried to smote him, be caught off guard? 

Not at all! As I said before I didn't want anybody to interpret my
remarks as a criticism of Dumbledore, far far from it! Dumbledore did
what had to be done, if he had not done it the world would have been a
poorer place. Dumbledore acted for the greater good!

Sometimes you need to act like a cold hard logical engine. I just
didn't think kindly grandfatherly benign Dumbledore had that ability;
it turns out I was wrong. Boy was I wrong! When he needed to
Dumbledore had the ability to turn his soul into a mafia hit man, and
that is to his credit.

As the scientist said when examining the monster from the movie Alien,
a monster so extraordinarily, so spectacularly, so astronomically
hideous that it was almost beautiful:

I admire its purity. 

And now I sign this post with my full name for the first time:

Eggplant Gellert Grindelwald