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

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 186762

> > 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. 
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> > 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
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> 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. 
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a_svirn:
I don't see that. We have no reason to believe that Scrimgeour was anti-Muggle. Nor Voldemort was someone who abused the rules of legitimate business. It's not like exposing a Dark Lord who went bad might have proved detrimental to all those honest and hardworking dark lords who hadn't done anything wrong.