Suspension of disbelief -Idiots of War

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 182441

Alla wrote:
> 
> <snip> I have to concede that **something** was being done **by the
members of the order**. I do not see it as nearly enough, but yes,
sure they did something.
> 
> I have not seen anything in your examples that somebody else except
 the members of the Order did something.
> 
> Oh wait, there is Xeno. He printed the truth, yes and then betrayed
 Trio. Here is one person who is not from the order.

Carol responds:
Poor Xeno. Naturally, he was more worried about his own daughter's
life than Harry's. Too bad he was so weak, but, like Hermione, I'm
glad that he wasn't killed.

And the Order members must have been doing more than wireless
broadcasts if they knew enough about what was really happening to
broadcast it.

However, I did think of a few more people who did *something,* all
involving the Confunded Auror Dawlish. Dirk Cresswell managed to
escape by Stunning him (granted, Cresswell was later killed, but not
by Dawlish) and Gran Longbottom to fight Dawlish off and protect
herself from capture. And *somebody* Confunded him in the first place.
(My candidate is Snape, who tells Yaxley that Dawlish is "known to be
susceptible" and who also Confunded Mundungus. Or maybe it was
Dumbledore, who hexed him twice "with the greatest regret" before his
death. If DD confunded Dawlish, snape would know about it).

Not a lot going on, I realize, but we have to allow for the limited
omniscient point of view, which, by definition, limits the reader's
awareness of what's happening outside the perspective of the pov
character even when that perspective is reliable. (JKR wanted HRH to
be isolated and Snape's actions to be shrouded in mystery.) 

But the mere fact that Gran Longbottom showed up to fight at her age
(she wasn't even a membero of the OoP) seems to suggest that at least
some people were just waiting for an opportunity for open resistance
and rebellion before fighting back. It's much easier to rebel as a
group than as an individual.

Carol, still wondering who Confunded Dawlish and why