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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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he same woman who insists with a straight face that her books are all about the triumph of love over evil

LMAO! It aggravates me so much when fans buy into this! 'Harry's such a hero, Harry has so much love, Harry's so awesome and compassionate and amazing that he named his own son after Snape and got him a portrait, though that nasty bastard didn't deserve any such consideration'.

Yeah. Our hero smirked in triumph at seeing a young girl facially disfigured. Nice. Tortured a man for spitting! So noble! *shakes head*

Oh, yeah. In that fawning interview Oprah did with Rowling, Oprah gushed at the end of it something like, "My favorite part about the series is that LOVE triumphed!" Rowling gushingly agreed with her.

To paraphrase Bruce Springsteen in "No Surrender," "I learned more about love from a two-minute Beatles song than I ever learned from 4200 pages of Harry Potter."

I will now shamelessly promote the Warriors series again by pointing out that Fireheart, the hero of the first series, sometimes gets criticized for being too compassionate and sensitive! He's been called a Gary Stu, and there may be some truth to that, but after being immersed in the adventures of Harry "Torture is Fun" Potter, it was a real pleasure to read about a hero about whom the biggest complaint is that he's excessively kind and considerate.