[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore's Chocolate Frog Card (was: Harry sparing V'mort)

[Barb]

No: HPFGUIDX 46434


Rich said:
"This (for me) brings up the question of how Wossisname (sorry Im tired and can't remember the name of Voldemorts predecessor as Evil Wizard of the Age) was defeated by Dumbledore.... Is D'dore tainted by an evil act?"

Then sugarkadi at aol.com wrote:

It's Grindlewald.  And maybe.  I don't have any thoughts on that.

 

Me:

My thoughts on this are as follows: on Dumbledore's Chocolate Frog card (which I believe will be more useful than just associating the headmaster with Nicolas Flamel) it said that Dumbledore DEFEATED the dark wizard, Grindelwald.  Not KILLED, but DEFEATED.  Defeated how? you're all asking now.  Excellent question.  How, if Grindelwald wasn't killed, did he cease to be a threat?  Whatever Dumbledore did, I don't believe it "taints" him or is a dark act; I do believe that what he did is the reason for Voldemort being afraid of Dumbledore.  I also believe that JKR chose her words very carefully when she wrote what appeared on that card, and that she would never make Dumbledore a killer.  As early as the first book, in fact, McGonagall sounded like she was both praising Dumbledore for not stooping to Voldemort's level and sounding a wee bit as though she wished he would, so they would have been rid of him sooner.  (Perhaps Voldemort should be more afraid of McGonagall? She's one tough cookie. <g>)

 

At any rate, the card is good evidence that if Dumbledore didn't need to kill a dark wizard to defeat him (if he killed him, why wouldn't it have said so quite clearly?), Harry won't need to either.  I still believe that Voldemort will do something stupid himself to end his second reign of terror, which is pretty much how it happened the first time, but that it will be permanent this time around.  

 

I also believe that the information that Dumbledore likes to bowl and listen to chamber music will come in handy, but I can't think how at this time...

 

--Barb

 

 


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