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

[pippin_999]

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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.

Pippin:
My point was that Dumbledore objected to Scrimgeour's methods and didn't think they could produce the results that Scrimgeour was claiming for them. Exposing a wizard who went bad is fine, and Dumbledore tried to do that. But the argument was that Dumbledore should have made an issue of Riddle's ancestry in order to discredit him. That would have proved detrimental to all those honest and hardworking people with Muggle ancestry who hadn't done anything wrong.

Pippin