ChapDisc: DH 18, The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore

[nikkalmati]

No: HPFGUIDX 182665

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
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> ---  "nikkalmati" <puduhepa98@> wrote:
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> > --- "Steve" <bboyminn@> wrote:
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> > > ---  "Mike" <mcrudele78@> wrote:
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> > > > CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
> > > > Chapter 18, The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore
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> > > > ...
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> > > > QUESTIONS:
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> > > > 6. With regards to "For the Greater Good", Hermione said 
> > > > Dumbledore changed. Did he? Though Dumbledore rejected 
> > > > Grindelwald's interpretation of that phrase, did Dumbledore
> > > > reject his own interpretation?
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> > > Steve/bboyminn
>    snip
>On some occasions human will sacrifices The Few to save The
>Many, but on other occasion, quite illogically, humans will
>sacrifice The Many to save The Few.

>This was especially impressed on me when Aberforth and Harry
>argue in 'Deathly Hallows' just before Harry and friends
>enter Hogwarts castle. Harry in essence says that some causes
>are so great and so true, and the need so real that indeed
>the few must be willing to sacrifice themselves for the good,
>or if you will the greater good, of the many.

>Nikkalmati

>The problem I am struggling with here is that Albus appears to be 
>willing to sacrifice other people for the good of the many.  This is 
>part of Aberforth's problem with his brother.  He is asking Harry if 
>he really knows what he is getting into.  Of course, he doesn't - 
>Albus never told him.  Albus knew Harry would be willling to go 
>forward at any cost, but was that fair?  Albus' MO is to trap you 
>into a committment and then shame you into going on when you finally 
>see the handwriting on the wall.  Not my idea of the highest moral 
>standard.  

>Nikkalmati