[HPforGrownups] Re: On the trivial and the profound.

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 165691

Ceridwen:
I was only focusing on the Tower scene, not on the UV.  But, in a war 
effort, everyone is expendable to the mission.  Some people, like 
Dumbledore and DDM!Spy!Snape, are less expendable than others, but 
we're not talking about a cult-type cause which may be merely 
personality-driven.  LV poses a threat to the WW, and to the Muggle 
world both.  The only person who is not expendable is Harry, and 
Dumbledore went to great lengths to say this at the Sea-Cave.  The 
mission is a primary thing in a war.  Cult figures should not apply 
to positions as military or paramilitary leaders.



Sherry:

But in a War, a real war, you don't go and kill your top general, just so
you can look good and get in good with the other side.  Imagine someone
killing the top Allied generals, or even Churchill or Roosevelt during WWII.
It would have been a calamity, and whoever it was would not have been a
hero.  He or she would have been a criminal, hunted down and if caught tried
and probably executed.  It's truly an argument I just don't understand	.
No matter Snape's motives, it's likely he will be hated and reviled for that
one deed forever--unless somehow, he did not really kill Dumbledore, such as
Dumbledore being dead already or something.  Harry thought Dumbledore was
sounding stronger, didn't he?  I have to admit, I haven't read HBP in over a
year and can't remember exactly.  But I am not in any way convinced that
murdering Dumbledore was the only way to get the death eaters out of
Hogwarts.

I know.  I've expressed all of this before, and we're not all going to
convince the other side of our point of view.  But it does truly baffle me
to consider that a truly supposedly good guy could ever have a legitimate
reason for murdering his leader, just to stay close to Voldemort.  I'd think
it could actually make his position with Voldemort more precarious, because
double agents are never really trusted very much.  

Sherry, thankful there are only 138 days to go till we get some answers!