Any political capital that could only be preserved by NOT rescuing a 12-year-old-girl from having her dreams, hopes, and life tortured out of her until she dies… isn’t political capital I’d be willing to preserve, frankly.
Also; consider the political capital he just GAINED that day. “The Boy-Who-Lived is so powerful that even Dementors fear him! Clearly, he is a power to be reckoned with!” <-- political capital out the wazzoo.
I think you are equivocating political power and political capital. Scaring dementors doesn’t show legitimacy quite the way winning elections does. In other words, political capital is a kind of political power, but not the only kind.
The blood debt was political capital. Scaring the dementor will create political power of another kind.
Any political capital that could only be preserved by NOT rescuing a 12-year-old-girl from having her dreams, hopes, and life tortured out of her until she dies… isn’t political capital I’d be willing to preserve, frankly.
Also; consider the political capital he just GAINED that day. “The Boy-Who-Lived is so powerful that even Dementors fear him! Clearly, he is a power to be reckoned with!” <-- political capital out the wazzoo.
I think you are equivocating political power and political capital. Scaring dementors doesn’t show legitimacy quite the way winning elections does. In other words, political capital is a kind of political power, but not the only kind.
The blood debt was political capital. Scaring the dementor will create political power of another kind.
I’m not equivocating; I’m equating. Political power is political capital; political capital is political power. If you have one, you have the other.