Dumbledore

[Joey Smiley]

No: HPFGUIDX 190868

Nikkalmati wrote:

> DD was a man with some very distictive weaknesses.  He believed in himself, but not anyone else.  Did he really think Harry or McGonagall or Snape would run off and make a Horcrux if he told them what LV had done? 

Joey:

LOL. Yeah, he could have certainly shared it with McGonagall, Snape and even Moody. I think trusting none was a huge flaw in him. Like Snape said, he used their services without telling them what would happen in the end. Outrageous, I know. I guess he thought they might find it difficult to handle or he feared that secrets might leak.

Yet I think he couldn't bring himself to tell Harry and, it was better for Harry that way, I think. Harry was not 17 yet when DD was dying. Telling him earlier would have made his existence miserable. This way, he had to endure only a few hours of agony.

Nikkalmati wrote:

> He was happy when things turned out so Harry could come back, but he did not plan it that way.

Joey:

Agreed. Though his plan did change course since GoF climax.

Nikkalmati wrote:

> I think he would have chosen to die, if he thought he could save the WW that way.  DD could just have told him.  

Joey:

I think what DD should have told him was about the Hallows instead of leaving Hermione to break her head over the kids story book. I don't understand how it will stop being a quest just because he told Harry that the story of Deathly Hallows is true, that such objects do exist and that Harry already has one.

And why in the world didn't he *tell* Harry that the sword of Gryffindor will help him out?

Cheers,
~Joey :-)