Tactics & Prescience

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No: HPFGUIDX 75862

> Talisman, who's off to tickle the giant squid.
> 
> P.S.
> Considering the line, "It was foolish to come here tonight, Tom" 
> said Dumbledore calmly." (OoP 813)  Sure there is the debunking 
> aspect (You can prance around calling yourself the Dark Lord, but 
> you'll always be Tom to me . . .), but did anyone else hear sorrow, 
> compassion, even affection in that intimacey?  I'm sensing more of 
> that "magic at its deepest [and] most impenetrable." (PoA 427)

Well, it would seem to me we need to know a little more about how 
Dumbledore "defeated" Grindelwald. If that is what he is most famous 
for (thanks to the Quibbler?), if that is why Voldemort fears him, 
then Harry's next question should be, and one of his previous 
questions should have been, "what did you do?" But Harry doesn't ask 
these questions, in the Parsifal aspects of his role. Nor does he ask 
about the socks at erised, which was the first of these unasked 
questions that I noticed, and was really the beginning of my 
questioning the problematic role of knowledge in Rowling. I replied 
to one of you previous posts regarding this, but I need to add that, 
as part of this problematic, Harry shows no interest in history 
(learning from mistakes? not repeating it? etc.), no interest in 
archived newspaper articles, etc. In some rather roundabout way, 
perhaps it is the wild fancies of Luna, with the eagle and the lion 
hats, who has been introduced as, I am assuming, a missing key to 
Potter's liberation (from the closet, from ignorance, what have you) 
that will usher in the resolution. In this sense, Dumbledore's 
campaign will be affected by the DA, how I'm not sure. His taking it 
on could, I suppose, suggest collusion with Hermione, but it seemed 
rather a compromise. And my sense is that the DA will, in some 
measure, supplant the OOP.

Enough for now.

dan