“His passion … was the work he had taken over from Illyan….
No. The work Haroche had taken away from Illyan.
Oh.
… I’m blind, blind, blind! Motive! What’s an elephant got to do around here, to advance and be recognized?” Miles Vorkosigan in Memory, by Lois McMaster Bujold
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So. Moments after agreeing with Harry that the Cloak couldn’t possibly have helped James or Lily, Albus contradicted this to tell Harry that the Cloak’s “true magic” is that it can be used to shield oneself and others simultaneously. I.e., that Lily maybe could have used it to sneak past Tom with Harry in her arms, had she been bold and cool-headed enough.
Excellent.
Mind you, these days I just like to collect Rowling errors - this makes #4,319 :-) - so I'd say this is another one of these. Because there's no way Rowling would have wanted us to think that Dumbledore deliberately placed the Potters in jeopardy like this, right?
Although - for whatever reason - he *did*. Thanks to your observation. All so Harry could have his nifty Cloak in book #1.
But Albus couldn’t risk Tom getting hold of the thing when he killed the Potters. Getting two of the three. Needing only to defeat the Deathstick’s master (which might be done by treachery or guile or chance; Tom didn’t have to be more powerful or ( ... )
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Albus with Merlinesque aspirations? He must have seen himself as one step better than the original - being gay and celibate he was safe of the chance of being trapped in a tree by Nimue.
What was the reason given for Arthur's fostering? Because Uther was still alive.
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So, why would he hesitate on letting Voldemort meet up with baby Harry if that eventually meant Voldemort would be defeated. Keeping the cloak not only seems selfish but in a certain way...if Voldie happened to go to the potters, so what, seems like Voldie and Baby Harry meeting might have been what DD wanted.
I know the zombie fans and even JKR herself would say NO, Dumbledore would not do that but to me DTCL writers/ and theorists have shown and pointed out many instances where Dumbledore willinly puts or allows Harry and others to be in mortal danger, or even be killed for the greater good.
So, why would James/Lily be any more special than the other people Dumbledore claims to care about.
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Albus looked "grim" when he spoke to Severus, his eyes were "sparkling" and he "chuckled" when he saw Minerva. He "bowed his head" to confirm for Minerva the rumor that Lily and James were dead, patted her on the shoulder, and said "I know... I know" heavily.
When Hagrid bursts into noisy sobs, it's Minerva who comforts and shushes him.
So no, he doesn't especially make a pretense of caring strongly about his two pawns.
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Hmm. Was this because he wasn't quite sure if the Potter family still had the cloak or because his Order wasn't that effective in getting the Stone from Tom? If we ignore Rowling's response from the Pottercast interview, but instead follow what Albus tells Harry in OOTP, at least the Potters and the Longbottoms had 3 direct encounters with Tom they survived before their respective sons were born. Does Albus' dream of uniting the Hallows explain why he needed a private army of people who do as he says without asking too many questions at a time when supposedly both he and the Ministry were united in the cause of fighting Tom? Was he using the trust of his most loyal supporters to promote his quest for the Hallow he knew to be in Tom's hands? Especially if he believed Tom was keeping it on him to use as needed.
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*sigh*
Stasia
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Contrary to what Potter said in King's Cross, Dumbledore did kill when he could have avoided it, or rather, he let those under his command unknowingly sacrifice their lives for his hubris.
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