Rhibear ~ Madam Solo ~ Dark Brooding Girl ~ Accio Jedi ~ Gryffinclaw ~ Just a doll Usually Heath would be pleased or relieved to know his answer was correct, but now he felt nothing. What did it matter? It wasn't as if a certain number of correct answers would keep him from getting locked away again. He dutifully copied down the list on the board, only looking up from his parchment when Recard spoke again, and even then he wasn't looking at her. He kept his gaze focused on the board as he listened. Oh, here it comes, he thought. That "one aspect" is bound to be Grindelwald…
But it wasn't. It was Dumbledore's relationship with Harry Potter. Frankly, Heath was more interested in looking at this from Potter's point of view than Dumbledore's, or he was as much as he could be interested in anything anymore. He felt a strange kinship with Harry Potter, as they were both boys forced into a cause by circumstances beyond their control. The more he thought about it, the more Dumbledore didn't seem all that different from Rosier. Although they were at opposite ends of the ideological spectrum, they were both Hogwarts headmasters so devoted to their respective causes that they would do anything to make them happen, even if it meant keeping their students in the dark about what those causes involved. That and they weren't above using children as pawns to get what they wanted.
That line of thinking made the answer to the next question obvious. "I think Dumbledore thought Harry would back out if he knew early on that he was a Horcrux and thus had to die to defeat Voldemort," he said after raising his hand. "He wasn't willing to gamble his cause's success on the fears of a child, so he planned to wait to tell the truth until Harry was too involved in the fight to turn back, even if he wanted to." Anything for the greater good, right?
__________________ Old voices I had thought long since dead whisper of another life I might have led If I could take that second chance, If I could make my life anew, If only dreams came true... |