Dumble., Playstation, Muggles for HP pins

[Kelley]

No: HPFGUIDX 1284

Hi everyone--

Some thoughts I had...

I can't say whether Playstation will date the books or not, but what 
I like about JKR mentioning them is this:  the character who likes 
videogames is one that kids most likely hate--Dudley, the mean, 
hateful, spoiled bully.  I'm pleased that the main characters--Harry, 
Ron, and Hermione-- aren't dying to play videogames, they don't even 
mention them.  To me, these games are overall just a big waste of 
time, not to mention money.  Less redeeming qualities than most TV 
and movies.

Dumbledore

Isn't the theme of an evil character owing his life to a good 
character rather common?  I've never read any Tolkien books either, 
but this theme of a bad char.'s indebtedness to a good char. seems to 
occur quite frequently in literature, movies, comics, etc.

If Dumble. did see socks in Erised, what I got from this is that at 
that point Dumble wants for nothing.  Vold isn't as powerful any 
more, and Dumble is as happy as he can be.  All is well in his life.  
He has no big *wants*, so socks would be a little pleasure for him...

Perhaps Dumble isn't 'pure white' and Vold isn't 'pure black', but 
they seem to be the closest to it in this world.  I agree that Dumble 
is our moral compass, and for him to exhibit any Vold qualities would 
be a type of betrayal.  Dumble needs to be the concept of good, as 
Vold is the concept of evil.  There has to be that balance.  Remember 
the scene in GoF when Moody/Crouch is about to kill Harry, and 
Dumble, McG, and Snape come in?  Dumble zapped the tar out of Moody, 
and Harry notices the look on Dumble's face.  The look was "...more 
terrible than Harry could have ever imagined.  There was no benign 
smile upon Dumble's face, no twinkle in the eyes behind the 
spectacles.  There was cold fury in every line of the ancient face; a 
sense of power radiated from Dumble as though he were giving off 
burning heat."  ~This~ is the type of darkness we'll see from Dumble 
in the future.  (What I think, anyway.)  He's always so serene, but 
now we'll get to see why Dumble's the only wizard Vold ever feared.  
We'll see his toughness, hardness, power, strength.  I hope so, at 
any rate.  This is a side of Dumble I long to see.

Kelley 

P.S.  Pamela, are personal checks okay, or do you need money orders 
for the pins?