The Gleam Revisited

[Steve Binch]

No: HPFGUIDX 45108

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "bugaloo37" <crussell at a...> wrote:
In this particular conversation, Dumbledore 
> mentions this idea: (excuse my paraphrasing) in order to die you have 
> to be human-and Voldemort no longer qualified as such.  At some 
> point, Hagrid makes virtually the same comment to Harry ( I cannot 
> recall which book-sorry).  IMO, I believe Dumbledore's gleam is a 
> result of his realization that Voldemort has regained his human form-
> which now makes him vulnerable in a way he has not been for some 
> time.

ME:
Although the *Gleam* is written suspiciously, I have never liked the idea that Dumbledore was in league with *V*. IMO, *D* is as much a protagonist as Harry. What message would JKR be making to the children of the world by turning *D* into a villian? "You can't trust anyone!"? I just can't see a positive moral message coming from this.
If that were the case, that *D* was secretly evil, it would leave me emotionally and mentally disturbed for the rest of my life, and I am a 26 year father of 2. Imagine how it would effect very impressionable children.

Dumbledore MUST be realizing that *V* has just made himself mortal and can therefore be killed. It has to be so. I refuse to accept the alternative.

-Steve B (who is now pulling himself together)


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