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

[davewitley]

Kneasy:

> 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.

Oh, I'll grant you that Dumbledore is leading *something*, and that he 
is effective in much of what he undertakes.

But that does not mean he automatically fits into the template of 'war 
leader'.

He's just an academic thrust to the fore through a combination of 
specialist knowledge and government incompetence.  He's not 
necessarily going to take decisions based on an overriding commitment 
to 'war aims', he's just doing the best he can in difficult 
circumstances.

David, thinking that if you all buy this he might get a job with 
Radovan Karadzic's defence team