Suspension of disbelief WAS: Why should we care if Harry's not really needed

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No: HPFGUIDX 182388

Carol:
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We do have a reason why Lupin doesn't help Harry in OoP or HBP; he's
spying on the werewolves. In DH, Harry declines his offer to help
them, believing (rightly, IMO) that Lupin's duty to his pregnant wife
and unborn child should come before anything else. McGonagall has her
duties as teacher, head of Gryffindor House, and deputy headmistress.
(Probably DD doesn't want her on the Horcrux hunt, however "sprightly"
she was until those four Stunning Spells forced her to use a walking
stick for awhile, because he needs her where she is. We see her once
dressed as a Muggle, which suggests that she acts as a spy in Muggle
London over the summer.)

Sirius Black has a very good reason for not helping Harry find the
Horcruxes; he's dead. So is the paranoid ex-Auror Mad-Eye Moody by the
time the Horcrux begins. And so, of course, is Dumbledore (who
nevertheless provides indirect aid via Snape and Snape's spy, portrait
Phineas). Tonks is newly pregnant with a half-werewolf child and in
danger himself from her wacko aunt. And Mrs. Figg is a Squib, for
crying out loud. Mr. Weasley quite reasonably helps Ron plan an alibi
for missing school, allowing him to go with Harry but not imposing his
own company on them. Mrs. Weasley tries, motherlike, to protect them
from danger. Everyone is accounted for in some way, and in no case is
idiocy the excuse.

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Alla:

Absolutely, I quite agree that those are good reasons,I would argue 
with the degrees of them, but as whole I agree more or less. I would 
add some bad reasons to that - like adults of Order not questioning 
Dumbledore nearly enough IMO, BUT that is how many people you listed?

I counted seven, give or take (oh dear my maths ARE bad), and last 
time I checked there are much more people in Wizarding World than 
that.

And also last time I checked Voldemort DID threaten WW as whole. 
Where are all those people?

And of course, it is AU objection, I am aware that story is not about 
them, but yeah, I do find that behavior to be idiotic. Mind you that 
does not make BOOK idiotic in my eyes, just the behavior of WW.

And yes, I give WW more credit than you seem to and for the reasons 
that Magpie so eloquently described before, I think the possibility 
of other people discovering about horcruxes is NOT out of reach at 
all.

Regulus' example is a testimony to that IMO.

JMO,

Alla