A few minutes have effectively passed in-story since they returned from the Wizengamot, so there’s no need for them to rush to raise money for a debt coming due after 6 years. And very clearly Dumbledore’s point was that it was bad strategy to agree to pay up, not that Harry would be utterly incapable to pay up.
Downvoted for annoying use of sarcasm instead of attempting to understand where either the characters or the story are coming from. It’s easy for a reader to snark at everything that happens. Your snark doesn’t indicate intelligent commentary though.
but couldn’t seem to find a neuron to spare to solve the problem. Harry owes 60k.
Sheesh, you didn’t even realize that the problem Dumbledore was indicating was not that Harry owed 60k.
No. Unlike Dumbledore, I realized it was a vengeance scenario, not a blackmail scenario.
The only issue was to get the job done—save Hermione. Harry and Minerva got it done. Now the job to get done is to pay the 60k, and remove any obligation Harry has to Lucius—as Dumbledore implied that being in debt created obligations beyond the debt itself. They have the rest of their lives to pontificate on blackmail, vengeance, and politics.
As for the tone, I think a little ridicule is the proper response to the ridiculous. YMMV.
A few minutes have effectively passed in-story since they returned from the Wizengamot, so there’s no need for them to rush to raise money for a debt coming due after 6 years. And very clearly Dumbledore’s point was that it was bad strategy to agree to pay up, not that Harry would be utterly incapable to pay up.
Downvoted for annoying use of sarcasm instead of attempting to understand where either the characters or the story are coming from. It’s easy for a reader to snark at everything that happens. Your snark doesn’t indicate intelligent commentary though.
Sheesh, you didn’t even realize that the problem Dumbledore was indicating was not that Harry owed 60k.
No. Unlike Dumbledore, I realized it was a vengeance scenario, not a blackmail scenario.
The only issue was to get the job done—save Hermione. Harry and Minerva got it done. Now the job to get done is to pay the 60k, and remove any obligation Harry has to Lucius—as Dumbledore implied that being in debt created obligations beyond the debt itself. They have the rest of their lives to pontificate on blackmail, vengeance, and politics.
As for the tone, I think a little ridicule is the proper response to the ridiculous. YMMV.