Dumbledore's role (was There's not much to go on)

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "davewitley" <dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:
> Kneasy:
> 
> > If he really is the war-leader as is claimed
> 
> What claim would that be, then?
> 

Hm. One of the awkward squad.
Mostly it's in posts to the boards.

OK, I'll admit that for this phase of the Voldy war the claim would be  
implicit rather than explicit, but who else has been leading the forces
of righteousness? Fudge opted out at the end of GoF.

The earlier phase, which covers GH, is less certain. For sure the MoM
knew which side it stood on - officially anyway, but it can't have been 
all that effective else why form the Order - many of the members of 
which seem to have been Ministry employees. Hamstrung by Voldy 
agents or supporters perhaps? If so, that'd make DD and his merry band
the only effective counter to Voldy and DD as the leader of the struggle 
- de facto if not de jure.

Besides which the alternative would seem to be Crouch Snr. - who's a bit 
low on man-management skills IMO. Unless anyone can come up with
other alternatives?

Kneasy