Dumbledore - brilliant but scary? was Re: Evil and Slytherin (Harry's Dream)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 38927

I wrote:
> 
> > Unless  Dumbledore is ever so evil, that's not the case in the 
Potterverse. Dumbledore believes in using his powers 
responsibly, at least according to McGonagall.<<<

Irene:
> I don't think he is ever so evil, but he scares me sometimes. 
One example being his "little chat" with Nicholas Flamel, the 
thought of  which always makes me shudder. Anyone else 
imagines it being to the  tune of "For the sake of the wizarding 
population, this wizard must  die", or is it just me?
> 

Oh! Maybe like Sam's description of the Lady of Lorien in LOTR: 
"I don't know about *perilous* ," said Sam. "It strikes me that folk 
takes their peril with them into Lorien, and finds it there because 
they've brought it. But perhaps you could call her perilous, 
because she's so strong in herself. You, you could dash yourself 
to pieces on her like a ship on a rock, or drownd yourself , like a 
Hobbit in a river. But neither rock nor river would be to blame."

I like thinking of Dumbledore that way. 

Come to think of it, maybe what Sam says could apply to 
Slytherin House as well. Maybe folk bring their evil with them into 
Slytherin, and find it there because they've brought it. What they 
do about it once they've found it---ah, that's the question, isn't it?

Pippin