[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore as Headmaster

[Peg Kerr]

No: HPFGUIDX 2534



ReEse wrote:

> >   He's incredibly powerful - but if he used it to full extent he could make things go *just so* and everything would be perfect - but who learns anything? and what a sterile world. I'm having an echo of some kids book here - anyone know whick one? (not the just so bit
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> >  ok, so I remember which book it is - its the end of "the dark is rising" sequence, the speech Merriman give to Will, the bad news is that you are going to have to take my word for it because I can't find it to quote. I swear someone is coming in to my house and stealing my books - first "chewing gum rescue" and now this!
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> >  storm
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> storm, it's on "Silver on the tree"( oh, god I love that book! :))
> I think that the quote you meant was this:
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> "For Drake is no longer in his hammock, children, nor is Arthur somewhere sleeping, and you may not lie idly expecting the second coming of anybody now, because the world is yours and it is up to you. Now especially since man has the strength to destroy this world, it is the responsibility of man to keep it alive, in all its beauty and marvelous joy,,,,and the world will still be imperfect, because men are imperfect. Good men will still be killed by bad, or sometimes by other good men, and there will still be pain and disease and famine, anger and hate. But if you work and care and are watchful, as we have tried to be for you, then in the long run the worse will never, ever, triumph over the better...."

This is almost EXACTLY what Rowling says in that most recent interview  when asked what was her seminal philosophy underpinning the books.

For those of you who haven't listened to it yet, go to:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/djs/mayo.shtml

Peg

(Good luck on your taekwondo examinations.  If this was theater, we would say, "Break a leg," but I imagine that's not what you say to wish someone luck in taekwondo examinations.  So I won't.)