[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Undeathly Hallows ?.
Cabal
md at exit-reality.com
Fri Oct 10 19:40:09 UTC 2008
I always believed Dumbledore knew Harry had to sacrifice himself in order
NOT to die.
That Dumbledore only told Snape the part Snape needed to know because Snape
had to give Harry a memory that stated he needed to die, not that he had a
chance to live.
If Harry ever thought for a second that he could survive he wouldn't have
been sacrificing himself and the magic would not have protected him. The
entire point, as I read it, was that Harry had to make the sacrifice to both
destroy the piece of Voldemorts soul inside him and to come out alive.
I don't think Dumbledore betrayed Harry, I think it was the only way he
could get Harry to sacrifice himself the same way his mother did and evoke
that power.
md
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Subject: [HPFGU-Movie] Re: Undeathly Hallows ?.
"Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
> they'll want to know as badly as
> Harry does what's going at Hogwarts
> and how DD could "betray" Harry to
> his (seeming) death.
I would agree with the above except I would not use quotation marks,
in the book I think Dumbledore did betray Harry, he did so for a very
good cause but it was a betrayal nevertheless. Dumbledore seemed as
surprised as Harry was when he survived his encounter with Voldemort
in the forest, and when Snape (of all people!) expressed concern about
leading Harry to his death "like a pig to the slaughter" Dumbledore
dismisses his squeamishness and even seems to make fun of them.
JKR says on this subject:
"Although [Dumbledore] seems to be so benign for six books, he's quite
a Machiavellian figure really. He's been pulling a lot of strings.
Harry has been his puppet. When Snape says to Dumbledore 'We've been
protecting [Harry] so he could die at the right moment?' - I don't
think in book one you would have ever envisioned a moment where your
sympathy would be with Snape rather than Dumbledore."
I still think Dumbledore is basically a good man, but that that bit
about the strings makes me think there is a little Don Vito Corleone
in him. I hope the film preserves the ambiguous nature of Dumbledore's
virtue, it makes him a more interesting character than the
personification of good.
Eggplant
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