Seventeen points against the movie (not all L.O.O.N.) and five pros

[Jenny from Ravenclaw]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "John Hancock" <seeker at h...> wrote
 
> (To be honest, Dumbledore would not have been an effect Headmaster 
if  he was constantly happy etc..... we do see his kind side and also 
I  think what he thinks of Harry and Co. in the hospital scene at the  
end and therefore I think Richard Harris was pretty good as 
Dumbledore)>

Hi John -

See, now I must disagree with *you*.  Dumbledore is one of my favorite 
characters in the books and one of the reasons I love him is because 
of his superb sense of humor.  In fact, it was the scene in the 
infirmary where he tells Harry about the vomit-flavored Bertie Bott's 
that made me fall in love with HP.  I adore the way Dumbledore's mouth 
twitches when he talks about Filch and his ever-growing list of banned 
items, or the way he is ready to tell a (probably) inappropriate joke 
to his students in GoF.  Why does he need to be so serious all the 
time?

I teach high school and my assistant principal is extremely proper and 
rule-oriented.  However, she has an excellent sense of humor, and that 
makes her prudishness completely tolerable for me.  Like Dumbledore, 
she loves our students and in return, they respect and genuinely like 
her, too.  Like Dumbledore again, no one wants to see my assistant 
principal angry.  I've seen it and it isn't pretty - much in the same 
way Dumbledore's anger at the end of GoF is rather frightening.  

Dumbledore is just as effective a Headmaster with his humor because it 
makes him approachable and compassionate.  Now I know he was 
compassionate in the film, but I would have liked him even more if I 
had seen that twinkle in his eye and the smile always hiding behind 
it.  I see that, though, as the fault of the screenwriter's, not 
Richard Harris.

--jenny from ravenclaw**********************