[HPforGrownups] Re: Occlumency VERY VERY LONG

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 191745

Pippin:
> But if I understand you correctly, what Harry would have done, if Dumbledore hadn't messed with his head, is say to himself, "Wait, three kids trying to stop Voldemort is crazy...there's gotta be a better way?"  He should have been more like ....wait for it....Slughorn????
>

Bart:
Except that three kids had a much better chance of stopping Morty than 
an army of people. It is the Lord of the Rings, and, to a lesser extent, 
Star Wars strategy: distract the bad guy while a small, relatively weak 
group sneaks in to destroy his source of power. Morty was unaware that 
his horcruxes were being destroyed, and, as long as that remained the 
case, there was still a chance of destroying them. If he was aware that 
they were being destroyed, he would have put them under protections that 
would make Bella's vault seem tame by comparison.

     Bart