Ron and Hermione supporting Harry WAS: Re: GoF fight between Harry and Ron

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 168976

> Alla:
> 
> Dumbledore knew that Malfoy was up to something indeed. Did he know 
> what **exactly** Malfoy  was up too or was he just keeping a good 
> pocker face on the Tower? I am not really sure. I guess it all 
> depends on how much one thinks Snape told him <g>.

Pippin:
*Why* should Dumbledore be keeping a good poker face on the
tower? He's at death's door. If Snape has already betrayed him, 
wouldn't he *want* Harry to know?

Alla:
> I am especially  not sure that he knew about cabinet.

Pippin:
But Harry did not know about the cabinet either. It
might have worked if he had told Ron and Hermione
to keep watch *inside* the Room of Requirement. But he 
didn't think that was necessary for the same reason
that Dumbledore did not. They both thought Draco on his own 
could not do anything.  Harry thought he would
get help from Snape, Dumbledore thought he couldn't get
it. Neither anticipated Draco would smuggle  DE's into
the castle through the RoR.

Alla:
> I guess I was doubly surprised that they did not believe him not 
> just about any person, but Malfoy of all people.

Pippin:
Hermione's seen Malfoy brag and act like he's up to 
something before. She ended up in the hospital wing for
weeks with fur all over her face, and it was for nothing.

Then she followed Harry against her own better judgement
in OOP and ended up in the hospital wing *again* for nothing --
as far as she knew at the time, everyone would have been 
better off if she'd gone back to Hogwarts and warned Snape 
instead of flying to London with Harry. 
> 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Do I care about Draco's death and Narcissa? Draco is planning 
> assasination of Dumbledore and almost kills two students in the 
> process. Do I think that DD looks more than a little hypocritical 
> when he lets little brat run in the school and do it, if he indeed 
> knows everything? YES, I absolutely do
> 
> Would I care if Draco and Narcissa died? Certainly not if that means 
> that bigger disasters could have been averted.

Pippin:
They wouldn't have been.

Suppose Dumbledore let himself be manipulated into
letting Draco and Narcissa die. Do you think Voldemort would
stop there? Once he had  a handle on Dumbledore, do you 
think he wouldn't keep using it,  again, and again and again? 

Pippin