I'm not trying to imply you couldn't. I just have no desire to offend people and thought this was an actual discussion. Since it seemed I was incorrect, I was planning to vacate.
I'm aware that the majority of 18-21 year olds act like children. My point is that they are not. And perhaps I wasn't clear in my sentence structure, but that was not what I was trying to convey. I'm saying that Dumbledore shouldn't have been pooling from the recent graduating classes of Hogwarts for his underground operation. There would have been plenty of equally or higher skilled Wizards from the other generations. The fact that he was recruiting so many Wizards that were from such a young demographic was more my concern than anything else, which is what you touch on in the second paragraph. That was my intended point.
That's an argument for where Albus' head might have been in his recruitment strategy and is a potential excuse for it. Though, we do have Alastor Moody in that group, and many of the original Order was not given an age definition, correct? So it is possible that those were from the previous generations. I chalk up the inclusion of the Marauders to desperation but that is admittedly an observation from someone who isn't wholly invested in this series.
Once again, I'll point to the clarification I made following my comment you are responding to. Sirius Black loves Harry but he doesn't love Harry enough. The initial discussion was how I don't believe Sirius truly cared about Harry and I didn't go into massive detail there. But the facts as I see it are that if he truly cared about Harry's well being, he would have been fixated on him in those hours following the incidents with the Dark Lord. Instead, he cared about his own loses (James) and fixated on that. I'm not saying he didn't love Harry, I'm saying he didn't love him "more than life itself." If he did, again, things would have gone a lot differently for Sirius.
We're not discussing the literary importance of his decisions, though. We're discussing him as a character. It was necessary and vital that the world had these realistic characters and that was actually something I could say was enjoyable about the series. Her writing was realistic for an unrealistic world. But if we're speaking about him solely as a character, which I believed we were, then it can't be denied that Sirius did not love him more than life itself. The argument falls apart from the beginning. Harry deserved someone who would fight for him and that was not Sirius, and if you ask me, nor was it ever Sirius.
Well, I didn't feel they were worth mentioning, they are kind of obvious. And I was thinking more about the paternal roles.