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[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one a little bothered by Dumbledore? Not only with the fact he could end up in the Guinness Book Of World Records for "Most Incompetent Headmaster of All Time" (though I'm sure there's worse. :P), but also because...he just bugs me. I know JKR was trying to write him as the "flawed Yoda", so to speak (and to be fair, he's nowhere near Yoda. XD), but it's also how...preachy he gets. Towards Fudge, for example. You know, in Goblet of Fire, with, "You place too much importance on purity of blood, yadda yadda et cetera et cetera" -- which considering how he treated Tom Riddle and the Slytherins is...slightly hypocritical isn't it? Probably bad writing on JKR's part, though. :/

Anyways, sorry 'bout the rambling. Thoughts?

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[condwiramurs.livejournal.com]

Interesting question. I'm not sure that it ever occurred to me to link it with that....

Basically, I see two issues. One is his idea of how to show someone love - in this case Harry, the only person he seems to go out of his way to 'care' about (I am uncertain if I buy that he was genuine or just made himself believe that). He showed Harry his 'love' by, for example, repeatedly encouraging him in dangerous things he had no business getting involved in, and then rewarding him very publicly in an inappropriate manner for this (school points should not be used like this), in way that is cruel to other students, by not allowing Harry to be subject to the same standard of behavior and punishment as other students but getting him off lightly most times he interferes (and a child, especially a child from a house where discipline is not standard but is arbitrary and personally-directed, it seems to me NEEDS to have an objective, clear standard of behavior made clear, for their long-term wellbeing and to reduce any current subconscious anxiety), and by lying to him and manipulating him. After of course having made sure that he is primed to think Dumbles is amazing and his savior by denying him a healthy family environment, and sending him back there every summer without sufficient oversight.

Two: he all but explicitly claims that desire for revenge = love. Which, I'm sorry, is just FAIL. Wanting to kill the guy who killed the parents you hardly knew might indicate that you love the idealized vision of your parent you have, yes, but the desire for violent revenge itself is hardly an expression of love - much less the sort of rare sacrificial love he tells us is Harry's super-special weapon against Voldie.

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, *this*! D:

[sharaz-jek.livejournal.com]

Two: he all but explicitly claims that desire for revenge = love. Which, I'm sorry, is just FAIL. Wanting to kill the guy who killed the parents you hardly knew might indicate that you love the idealized vision of your parent you have, yes, but the desire for violent revenge itself is hardly an expression of love - much less the sort of rare sacrificial love he tells us is Harry's super-special weapon against Voldie.

In this universe, love burns people to death. This is quite consistent with Albus' views on the matter.

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

XD

To quote ATLA, "Flameo, hotman. Flameo." :3

[charlottehywd.livejournal.com]

In this universe, love burns people to death. This is quite consistent with Albus' views on the matter.

Wow, good call.

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

And thus Rowling's? *Is possibly overgeneralizing. XD*