Lily (was Complimenting a character )

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 184441

Carol: 
> At any rate, I'm sure that you were exaggerating for effect in
stating that DD was "willing to see Hogwarts burn to the ground to
block Voldemort,"

Pippin:
I can't speak for Kamion, but I don't think this is exaggeration: it's
exactly what the good guys  were prepared to do in DH. It's what JKR
thinks should be done, in other words. 

Now granted, McGonagall gives  the underage students and anyone who
doesn't want to try to block Voldemort a chance to seek refuge
elsewhere, but Dumbledore seems to have been prepared to do that too,
if in his judgement there was somewhere safer for them to go. He was,
according to McGonagall, prepared to close the school if Slytherin's
monster killed again.

But Dumbledore seems to have thought that as long as he and Snape were
there to protect them along with the protective spells around Hogwarts
itself, the students were better in than out, no matter what evils
might be lurking on the premises.
 
Carol:
. (Binns, I agree, there's no excuse for. Chalk him up to JKR's whimsy.)

Pippin:
Or to pressure from the Board of Governors, who couldn't resist a
faculty member that didn't have to be paid. Or perhaps Dumbledore
thought a  class that everyone ignored was the best way to deal with
the Ministry-approved version of the past.  Fudge, an educated man,
thinks that Giants eat humans -- if that's a fair sample of the sort
of thing the Ministry thinks should be taught, it's no wonder that
Dumbledore wants such information ignored.

Pippin