I stubbed my mental toe on this part even as a brand new, uncritical HP reader. That Dumbledore's personal pet only protects DD himself or his friends is one thing. But the text, with that emphasis on how the magic fairytale bird healed Harry because he was deserving, rather conflated loyalty to DD with virtue in general. And DD's wet mouth about said loyalty was disturbing.
It's really one of those things it's hard to get past.
I remembered this as Ginny being prodded into betraying his confidence, but nope, she just blurts it out. In front of the twins. Because they weren't making Percy's life miserable enough yet. The kindest interpretation is that she's unbelievably gullible. I realize that she's wearing the exposition hat, but couldn't she have told Harry in private?
Yes, when she tells she's basically saying that of course she wasn't thinking of keeping that a secret because who would care?
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Date: 2007-06-09 06:49 pm (UTC)It's really one of those things it's hard to get past.
I remembered this as Ginny being prodded into betraying his confidence, but nope, she just blurts it out. In front of the twins. Because they weren't making Percy's life miserable enough yet. The kindest interpretation is that she's unbelievably gullible. I realize that she's wearing the exposition hat, but couldn't she have told Harry in private?
Yes, when she tells she's basically saying that of course she wasn't thinking of keeping that a secret because who would care?