Dumbledore versus General Iroh SPOILERS for Avatar the Last airbender LONG

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 184737

Shelley k12listmomma wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/184724>:

<< There's no trust, no love in what Dumbledore ultimately does to
Harry. Dumbledore doesn't see a destiny where Harry willingly makes
the right choice, >>

I am not a big fan of Dumbledore, but I cannot resist nitpicking.

It seems to me that Dumbledore greatly trusts Harry. Dumbledore
*trusts* that Harry, on receiving Snape's information, will choose
heroic self-sacrifice. And trusts Harry's competence and thoroughness:
"If I know him, he will have arranged matters so that when he does set
out to meet his death, it will truly mean the end of Voldemort."

Surely there are people who, upon learning that they were raised as
pigs for the slaughter, would choose to run away to another country to
live under a different name. Like: "I don't owe these manipulative
adults anything, and the children who are depending on me were
deceived by the adults, not by me."

Surely there are people who, upon learning that the plan is that they
will allow themselves to be killed without defending themselves, will
fight and try to defeat the other guy and win the duel anyway. 

<< There is no end goal for Harry other than for Harry to be dead,  >>

Well, since the infamous gleam of triumph in Dumbledore's eye,
Dumbledore has been hoping that Harry will survive being killed, and
assuming that Harry then will be a good man leading a normal life.

But, on repeated review of my post, Dumbledore stood for the theory
that it is very bad for any person, including Harry, to never ever die.