Power of names and Tigana SPOILERS WAS : Re: DH reread CH 20

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 186761


> a_svirn:
> Then again, once the bubble were burst and all those anti-Semitic investors, their children and grandchildren, their employees and families of those employees were broke, they would have even greater political ammunition against Jewish people. Wouldn't they? In fact it wouldn't be a stretch if they grabbed pitchforks and went after all Jews they could find, crooks or not. 

Pippin:
That's a concern, certainly. But if people drive a Jew out of business not because he's a crook but because he's Jewish, isn't the next step to drive all the Jews out of business? With pitchforks if necessary?

> a_svirn:
> So what's your preferable solution to the problem would be? Let the crook run his Ponzi scheme, let anti-Semitic investors go bankrupt (and all the other investors as well)? Let the ineffectual government of which you are an official collapse in the face of public anger? I am not sure it would help Jewish people any. 

> 
> However, it wouldn't surprise me if Dumbledore did indeed think along those lines. He wasn't after all interested in the strong effective government. The weaker the Ministry was, the stronger was his position as a leader of his merry band of vigilantes. He certainly did nothing to help Scrimgeour, even though he too wanted to stop Voldemort


Pippin:
I would do exactly what I would do in the case of a suspected Ponzi artist who wasn't Jewish:  show that he couldn't possibly get the return he was claiming to get with the methods he was claiming he used to get it. I believe that was Dumbledore's objection to Scrimgeour as well. 

Pippin