Whom did Dumbledore torture and killed?/ Tonks as auror
Carol
justcarol67 at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 28 20:40:17 UTC 2008
No: HPFGUIDX 181094
Alla:
> But I can only assign him some percentage of liability here and not
very high.
> <SNIP>
>
Alla:
>
> Oh how much I hate wasting a post on this, but just to be clear I
meant Dumbledore in this sentence not Snape.
>
> But even with Snape whom I would probably assign at least 50%
liability for Potters death, I still would not call him more
responsible then Voldemort. <snip>
Carol responds:
Oh, those ambiguous pronouns. I have the same problem. And, BTW, I did
think you meant Snape.
However, I think we should assign Wormtail, who betrayed the Potters
to their deaths, a share of the blame at least equal to Snape's,
especially since Snape regretted revealing the Prophecy because it
endangered Lily and went to Dumbledore for help, vowing to do
"anything" to protect not only Lily but her hated husband and her child.
So we have Voldemort as actual murderer, who surely should get at
least 50 percent of the blame; Wormtail as betrayer, without whose
revealing of the secret Voldemort could not have committed the murder
getting maybe 25 percent; Snape, whose revelation of the Prophecy
caused Voldemort to want to thwart it at maybe 20 percent; with
Sirius's brilliant idea to switch Secret Keepers getting maybe 5
percent of the blame. True, he didn't intend any harm--quite the
opposite--but Wormtail's betrayal could not have happened without the
SK switch. Where DD fits into the picture, I'm not sure, unless it's
borrowing and not returning the Invisibility Cloak. He did, after all,
suggest the Fidelius Charm and offer himself as SK, and if the Potters
had accepted his offer, Voldemort would have been thwarted. (And there
would have been no Chosen One and no story, but that's beside the point).
Carol, not expecting anyone to accept her percentages but thinking
it's important to include Wormtail in the list of people to be blamed
(and wondering why DD is being included in the list)
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