[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore WAS: Re: Love and Joy vs. Hate and Despair

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 190952

Alla:

 You know, one can argue that he did handed Harry to Voldemort when it suited his plans ;). Remember triwizard Tournament? Remember how everybody thought that Dumbledore should withdraw Harry and there were those mysterious rules that he supposedly cannot withdraw. Did anybody doubt that Dumbledore could withdraw him if he actually wanted to? So here we go, while even as a joke I will not claim that Dumbledore predicted Cedric's death and went along with him (although I personally would not put it past him), Dumbledore could have avoided Harry's ordeal and did not do so.


 Lynda:

 One can of course argue that Alla. That does not mean however that the one arguing that is correct. I, for one, when I read the words BINDING MAGICAL CONTRACT interpreted those words to mean UNBREAKABLE MAGICAL CONTRACT. THE PERSON WHO ATTEMPTS TO BREAK THE CONTRACT WILL BE KILLED/CURSED. Perhaps I am the only one who interpreted it that way. I was made to think, when reading your answer of an acquaintance of mine. She has been married to the same man for over thirty years, since she was in her twenties. Her husband is several years older than her. He is an U.S. Citizen by birth. She immigrated after their marriage. She agreed to marry him only in her native country. The reason? He was several years older than her and had been married and divorced two times prior to asking her to marry him. She lived in one of the few countries that has no recourse for divorce for married couples. She wouldn't give him the opportunity to divorce her when times got tough. So that is how I envision the TriWizard tournament. You can't just quit because things get hard. When you sign up, knowing what's going to happen or NOT knowing what's going to happen (kind of like a marriage) you can't back out just because things go wrong, you change your mind, you don't like the rules, or "OH! I didn't put my name in. Someone else did it."


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