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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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[danajsparks.livejournal.com]

Yeah, see, I never paid much of any attention to the interviews or to discussions of fandom until recently, and so, based on my reading of the books, I had thought that she had meant to hoodwink us into thinking that Dumbledore was the prototypical elderly mentor and then pull the rug out from under us in book 7.

Without the train station scene and the epilogue, that is exactly what the story would look like, I think.

I'm still not entirely convinced that that wasn't originally her intent and she just failed to execute it very well. Or maybe she chickened out on doing it in the end.

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

That too. :)

[sunnyskywalker]

She chickened out of killing Arthur, so I actually could believe that at the last moment she just couldn't help trying to shine Dumbledore up again.

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

True. :)