Dumbledore and other leaders WAS: Moody's death

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 179444

Alla wrote:
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> Oh, and another key difference to me is that mission, suicidal and
desperate as it was **had** a purpose. Tell me what was the purpose of
seven Potters again? <snip>

Carol responds:

Thanks to Pius Thicknesse, Harry could neither use Floo Powder nor
Apparate to escape from 4 Privet Drive. Either action would have led
to his capture and arrest. The only alternative was to fly out, with
as many decoys as feasible, so that the Death Eaters would be split up
instead of having all of them following Harry. Also, the real Harry
was sent with the person Voldemort was least likely to follow, that
unqualified "oaf," Hagrid.

Yes, it was a dangerous plan, but all of them (except possibly
Mundungus) were there to protect Harry, putting his life above their
own because he was the Chosen One. Some things are worth dying for, as
Mr. Weasley told the Twins back in OoP.

Agreed, it wasn't a perfect plan (I don't think that Snape liked it
much, either, or he wouldn't have risked blowing his cover by saving
Lupin against DD's orders to "play his part"), but it did give *Harry*
a better chance of survival than he would have had faced with thirty
DEs and Voldemort, all of them knowing that he, the only Harry, was
the real Harry, if that makes sense. The Order could have surrounded
him as a guard, but they would still have been risking their lives at
least as much as they were risking them in the seven Potters plan.
This way, at least, the DEs were split up. Divide and conquer, or, at
least, divide the pursuers and increase your chances of escaping them.

Everyone involved was an of-age Order member and everyone involved
knew the risk they were taking. It was not a suicide mission; only one
person was killed and that was because of Mundungus Fletcher's
cowardice. (Then again, I'd have panicked, too, with Voldemort himself
trying to kill me.) What made it risky was not the plan itself but
DD's order to Snape to reveal the intended departure time. (He didn't
reveal the most important element of the plan, the use of decoys. That
part caught the DEs and Voldemort by surprise.)

Carol, who thinks that Harry should simply have gone off with the
Dursleys and then Disapparated to the Burrow when Mr. Dursley stopped
the car