There are NO WORDS for how furious I was to read Dumbledore's (and Harry's, but he's a clueless idiotic kid) dismissal of Merope Gaunt as lacking the courage to live.
1)Well, quite. Harry says fuck-stupid things all the time, it's par for the course. Albus, however, is meant to be a wise font of wisdom and clever SMRTNSS. He's been around for a great long time and yet still can't work out stuff about families etc like that? I wonder if he ever had kids of his own? Hmm... 2)I am reminded of Sirius' death and how he was courageous to die rather than come back as a ghost to keep Harry company (so Nearly-Headless Nick says, anyway - only people too scared to die come back as ghosts, and Sirius was teh brve). In other words, Merope's death and subsequent abandonment of her son was not brave (even though, really, she probably didn't have much choice there - who chooses to die in childbirth?) whereas Sirius' death and abandonment of Harry is due to his unending courage? Thought: maybe Merope is being a ghost somewhere. But I doubt it :(
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Date: 2005-12-01 10:49 pm (UTC)1)Well, quite. Harry says fuck-stupid things all the time, it's par for the course. Albus, however, is meant to be a wise font of wisdom and clever SMRTNSS. He's been around for a great long time and yet still can't work out stuff about families etc like that? I wonder if he ever had kids of his own? Hmm...
2)I am reminded of Sirius' death and how he was courageous to die rather than come back as a ghost to keep Harry company (so Nearly-Headless Nick says, anyway - only people too scared to die come back as ghosts, and Sirius was teh brve). In other words, Merope's death and subsequent abandonment of her son was not brave (even though, really, she probably didn't have much choice there - who chooses to die in childbirth?) whereas Sirius' death and abandonment of Harry is due to his unending courage? Thought: maybe Merope is being a ghost somewhere. But I doubt it :(