[HPforGrownups] Re: Why didn't DD reveal Voldemort's identity? Some Tigana spoilers

[No Limberger]

No: HPFGUIDX 186969

>Magpie wrote [SNIP]:
>Dumbledore being obsessed with knowing stuff other people don't

No.Limberger responds:
The only thing that I would say Dumbledore was obsessed with was
to defeat LV.

>Magpie wrote:
>Everyone on the planet should never be limited to Dumbledore's choices.

No.Limberger responds:
We are all limited each day by other people's choices.  If you get
stuck in traffic on a freeway, it was both your choice to be on the
freeway as well as everyone else's who then have to slow
down due to excess traffic.  This is also the result of the freeway
designers who designed the road with an expectation that only
a certain number of vehicles would be on the road at any given time,
as well budgetary constraints on how much could be spent on the
highway.

Each of us makes choices every day.  Those choices may seem
at times to only affect us, but they will invariably affect others as
well.  No one for certain can say what all of the consequences of
a particular choice will be because there are simply far too many
unknowns to take into account.  If you get onto a freeway and have
to slow down, say, because a dog runs out in front on your car, then
chances are that anyone immediately behind you will also have to
slow down, and so forth and so forth.  Long after you have departed
the area, chances are that there will still be people slowing down
in the spot where you first hit your brakes because of the amount
of traffic on the road.  Your choice was to save the dog, but you
have also invariably & unintentionally created a minor traffic jam.
Unintended consequences can never be fully accounted for, especially
in an emergency situation when decisions may have to be made
very quickly.

Consider an accident that occurred at a Hyatt Regency
Hotel in the U.S. approximately 20 years ago.  A number of
people were celebrating new years at the hotel and many were
dancing on catwalks over a larger area.  One of the catwalks
slipped from its support cables, falling onto a second catwalk that
consequently slipped from its cables.  Both fell to the ground floor
below, injuring and killing many people.  Were the patrons at
fault for dancing on the catwalks?  Was the engineering firm
that designed the catwalks years earlier responsible for a poor
design?  No.  After a long investigation, it turned out that a
subcontractor during construction chose to save a few cents
by using smaller washers that helped to keep the support cables
in place than what the engineering firm had designed.  Did the
subcontractor do that to deliberately harm others?  No, they
just wanted save a handful of dollars without considering the
consequences of changing the design that they were not
qualified to change in the first place.  Consider Air France's
decision to delay replacing airspeed sensors on their fleet
of Airbus A330's.  This may have resulted in the recent crash
of a plane bound for Paris from Rio de Janeiro over the Atlantic
Ocean that killed over 200 passengers and crew.  Consider
the pilot who chose to land a U.S. Air Airbus plane in a river
flowing next to NYC a few months ago after the engines lost
power due to sucking in a flock of birds.  His decision to land
the plane in the river saved lives.  Had he chosen to try and
land at a nearby airport with no power, there would probably
have been a lot of deaths, both on the plane and on the
ground.

Thus, while you accuse Dumbledore of being obsessive and greedy
for knowledge, I completely disagree.  Dumbledore made choices
that he believed were right at the time.  If he realized that he was
wrong about something, he was not too ashamed to admit it.  An
individual as obsessed as you claim would never be willing to
admit a mistake since that would require sharing information that
they aren't willing to share in the first place.

-- 
"Why don't you dance with me, I'm not no limberger!"


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