DH reread CH 12 -- Cracking a Few Eggs.

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 186457

 
> Pippin continues:
> 
> > And because Dumbledore eventually discovered that if he 
> > allowed this power to be used, he a) couldn't keep it out 
> > of the hands of people like Grindelwald, and b) couldn't 
> > control how he himself used it in a moment of rage or fear.
> > 
> 
> bboyminn:
> 
> Now you seem to be talking about something completely different.
> You seem to be talking of the Elder Wand and not the 
> Unforgivables.
> 

Pippin:
Sorry that was unclear.  I'm talking about Dumbledore's plans to "seize control" using "only the force that is necessary  and no more" as quoted in his letter to Grindelwald DH ch 18. When Aberforth rebelled, Albus discovered how his attempt to seize control would work out -- not only had Grindelwald always intended to use more force than Albus thought necessary, Albus found that under pressure so did he. 

No one would argue that Harry and McGonagall didn't need to seize control of the school, and one can certainly understand  and forgive them for not stopping to calibrate how much force would be necessary. But IMO, that's JKR's point. We've created this mythology of superheroes who never use more force than is necessary, we feed it to our children, and then they have to unlearn it, as Harry does,  before they're prepared to deal with power in the real world.

Pippin