Re: Dumbledore may be an idiot -


trinity wrote:
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:07:58 -0500, Toon <toon@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 10 Jan 2007 14:20:47 -0800, "Nella" <nellafrost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If DD indeed knew about fake Moody's
true identity and let him carry on with his plans of delivering Harry
to LV, he is partly responsible for Cedric Diggory's death. Unlike
Sirius, Cedric was only a student, completely unaware of the danger.

Or, he thought he knew Harry enough to go for the win.

And there is that rather ominous confession by DD to Harry: "What did I
care if numbers of nameless and faceless people and creatures were
slaughtered in the vague future, if in the here and now you were alive,
and well, and happy?"

He's a big picture guy. We're talking sacrificng people he doesn't
even know he never, to ensure their only hope survives to win. The
consequence of failure: An infinite number of lives lsot, including
those he msot certianly knows and loves. It's a very sick version of
one lfie for many. Who he sacrifices now can only serve to help all
of humanity.

It's like this. Think of everybody who died in the various Al-Queda
attacks,a nd the war resutling thereof. Thousands of them. Now,
let's pretend Bush is right (stop laughing), and saving Iraq is the
key to saving the world. Iraq's a peaceful democracy, the Middle East
quickly falls into place. By 2010, world peace is acheived. Wouldn't
all those lost lives suddenly be worth it, cosndiering the millons who
would die in a resulting World War 3? But now they'll be no WWIII.
Now we have everlasting peace. No racism, bigotry, prejudice, none of
that crud. All thsoe nameless,f aceless people who died in Bush's
War, in Al-Queda's atatcks, becoem validated and justified. Noble
martyrs who brought us peace in the end. Worth it, isn't it?

The nameless and the faceless just might have a problem with it.

HE is not sacrificing lives. He is attempting to protect one crucial
life that MUST not be lost, for if that life were lost, then the arm of
the prophecy would swing, perhaps irrevocably, in LVs favour. It is
just this: if he has to make a choice between the life of Harry and
another student, he would save Harry. Now is that right or wrong? or
idiotic? Or: To provide a twist within a twist, in order to save
Longbottom, he may be making Harry the scapegoat!!!

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