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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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[oneandthetruth.livejournal.com]

Please see mary_j_59's remarks in this thread as well as my own. I also thought of something else Rowling ripped off from Warriors. Many people have remarked how weird it is that Dumbledore didn't just fall when Snape AK'd him; he lifted up and flew off the tower, unlike anyone else in the series killed by that spell. In the penultimate book of the Fireheart series, A Dangerous Path, someone dies in an almost identical way. I don't want to say more and spoil it for you, but the similarities between the two scenes are astonishing--and rather suspicious, under the circumstances.

Let me not forget to mention that Bluestar has a mysterious, secret past that's very similar to Dumbledore's, involving forbidden love, betrayal, and the death of an innocent. Honestly, Rowling reminds me less of an author than she does those "musical artists" who do nothing but rip off "sample" other people's music instead of writing something original.

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

Ah. I see. :)

Then there's the locket thing...