*Harry identifies Phineas as Sirius’ great great grandfather—is he Draco’s great great grandfather too? I mention this because I’ll bet when/if this information comes up Harry will be completely shocked by it. Phineas is Narcissa'sa Great Great Grandfather, Draco is one generation farther. Maybe it will make it less of shock. Phineas is also younger than Dumbledore, which was a shock for me.
*Dumbledore says he’ll take appropriate measures to investigate who murdered Katie. Not that anyone will hold it against him if they never turn up anything. Well, he did. He did not say that he would act on information.
*Why does Dumbledore even call them lessons, anyway? Aren’t they more like…information sessions? Just drawn out interminably through use of the Pensieve? From a literary point of view those are info dumps, but inside the narrative those are brainwashing sessions. Every single one is hammering in Harry's skull that Tom is bad from the womb, that nothing could be done to change it, and that he can be killed without any trouble for the killer's conscience. He is 'no longer human', after all, but he was very little human from the beginning. I'd like to strip from those scenes everything that's just Dumbledore's interpretation and look at what's left. Almost nothing, I suspect. ("My first thought was, he lied in every word, that hoary cripple...")
*Dumbledore explains that Merope couldn’t use magic because she either didn’t want to be a witch anymore or her powers were sapped by despair, which can happen to witches in love. Choosing to never more use magic while one is starving requires a pretty strong willpower. Of course Albus immediately gives another interpretation much more unfavorable to Merope.
*Dumbledore asks Harry not to judge Merope too harshly, since after all she never had his mother’s courage. At this point I actually wrote on the book the local version of "go fuck yourself sideways, Albus".
*So Dumbledore zaps the woman’s brain to make it easier. Gee, that doesn’t disturb me at all. It’s good to know wizards can do stuff like that when they want a child for themselves. They are willing to do so for much more less than a child.
*Mrs. Cole tells how one night Merope Gaunt showed up, gave birth, and died an hour later. Which clearly shows that she was willing to desert her baby for lack of courage.
*Mrs. Cole also explains that Tom’s showing signs of being a sociopath—luckily again he won’t stand out at Hogwarts. The first time we see Harry do magic, he throws two kids in a giant serpent's cage.
*Tom looks fevered. Awww, he’s like little Draco the Nutter. He was locked in a room waiting for a doctor from the asylum to examine him. I don't think it was 'his' room: there must have been dormitories for all those orphans.
Also, Dumbledore gave this troubled kid money and sent him alone in a new and unknow place. What was he thinking? (I suspect it's connected with the fact that Tom got the Amazing Twin Wand, whose core came directly from Dumbledore)
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Date: 2006-06-10 09:34 am (UTC)Phineas is Narcissa'sa Great Great Grandfather, Draco is one generation farther. Maybe it will make it less of shock. Phineas is also younger than Dumbledore, which was a shock for me.
*Dumbledore says he’ll take appropriate measures to investigate who murdered Katie. Not that anyone will hold it against him if they never turn up anything.
Well, he did. He did not say that he would act on information.
*Why does Dumbledore even call them lessons, anyway? Aren’t they more like…information sessions? Just drawn out interminably through use of the Pensieve?
From a literary point of view those are info dumps, but inside the narrative those are brainwashing sessions.
Every single one is hammering in Harry's skull that Tom is bad from the womb, that nothing could be done to change it, and that he can be killed without any trouble for the killer's conscience. He is 'no longer human', after all, but he was very little human from the beginning.
I'd like to strip from those scenes everything that's just Dumbledore's interpretation and look at what's left. Almost nothing, I suspect.
("My first thought was, he lied in every word, that hoary cripple...")
*Dumbledore explains that Merope couldn’t use magic because she either didn’t want to be a witch anymore or her powers were sapped by despair, which can happen to witches in love.
Choosing to never more use magic while one is starving requires a pretty strong willpower. Of course Albus immediately gives another interpretation much more unfavorable to Merope.
*Dumbledore asks Harry not to judge Merope too harshly, since after all she never had his mother’s courage.
At this point I actually wrote on the book the local version of "go fuck yourself sideways, Albus".
*So Dumbledore zaps the woman’s brain to make it easier. Gee, that doesn’t disturb me at all. It’s good to know wizards can do stuff like that when they want a child for themselves.
They are willing to do so for much more less than a child.
*Mrs. Cole tells how one night Merope Gaunt showed up, gave birth, and died an hour later.
Which clearly shows that she was willing to desert her baby for lack of courage.
*Mrs. Cole also explains that Tom’s showing signs of being a sociopath—luckily again he won’t stand out at Hogwarts.
The first time we see Harry do magic, he throws two kids in a giant serpent's cage.
*Tom looks fevered. Awww, he’s like little Draco the Nutter.
He was locked in a room waiting for a doctor from the asylum to examine him. I don't think it was 'his' room: there must have been dormitories for all those orphans.
Also, Dumbledore gave this troubled kid money and sent him alone in a new and unknow place. What was he thinking? (I suspect it's connected with the fact that Tom got the Amazing Twin Wand, whose core came directly from Dumbledore)