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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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[sunnyskywalker]

And she wouldn't even have had to gone into detail about it - just have Dumbledore say the teachers didn't believe him after they'd met Tom and that none of his efforts to pin anything on Tom worked. The end! It's baffling, really.

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

I know, right? Seriously, when *we* can think up a better way the plot could have gone -- *you're doing it wrong*.

(Seriously, that should be an icon. "Plotting -- you're doing it wrong")

[sunnyskywalker]

Tom was pretty obviously good at memory modification by about age 15, so why couldn't Dumbledore have specifically noticed that students didn't remember what happened during those mysterious incidents? I doubt the other teachers would condone trying to break a memory charm they weren't even sure existed based on Dumbledore's gut (quite reasonably too), so that would have stopped the investigations right there.

I would love to see the original manuscripts after her editors sent them back with comments. Did they do as much as they could given time constraints and/or their power relative to JKR's (and if so, just imagine the unedited version!), or did they think too much like her to catch more of these things, or what?

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

As would I! :D

And the memory modification thing...actually works pretty well. :)