[HPforGrownups] Re: Is Dumbledore Vain?

Sat Oct 13 13:35:54 UTC 2001

No: HPFGUIDX 27603

   Aha, another Blakie? although Rita seems to have
missed the fact that, in B7, it is bad guys and
not-so-good-guys who are so notably frank about their
own excellence she still makes an excellent point.
'Modesty' as in falsely denigrating one's own
abilities is not always counted a virtue. It was
Sherlock Holmes' opinion that understating one's
talents was as much a fault as overstating them and
that there was nothing wrong with a frank
acknowledgment of one's own strengths. Possibly
Wizards feel the same way about it.

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