Be nice to Gandalf (Was: Dumbledore, Gleam & Gandalf)

[prefectmarcus at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 24325

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., fourfuries at a... wrote:
>   One other note.  Dumbledore is similar to Tolkien's wizard, 
Gandalf 
> The Grey, in several regards.  Both are powerfully magical, 
> storehouses of knowledge, the greatest wizards of their respective 
> generations.  The big differene is that Dumbledore is a much nicer 
> person, who feels for Harry and others, and calculates those 
feelings 
> into his plans and actions.
> 
>   Gandalf was happy wandering around Middle-Earth hatching and 
> nurturing his many schemes.  In the Hobbit, he left Thorin 
> Oakenshield and company to face the dragon Smaug by themselves, and 
> left Thorin's father to die in the Necromancer's dungeons.  In the 
> trilogy, he was perfectly willing to sacrifice Frodo and Sam if it 
> meant destroying his nemesis.  He was a cold calulating thinker 
type, 
> who happened to believe in fighting for the good.

Hey!  Be nice.  You could just as easily say that instead of staying 
at home, snuggled safe in his magically protected castle, Gandalf is 
out in the field fighting evil face to face, as opposed to sending out 
underaged children to do his dirty work.

It is possible to twist anything.  I rather suspect that Gandalf and 
Dumbledore would be fast friends.

Marcus