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[holly_phoenix_11]

No: HPFGUIDX 76594

Hello, grownups!

Recently I decided to post this first thread, as I have been lurking 
for quite some days now, silent and really interested in reading your 
very thought-provoking threads and posts.

The reason behind this desire is simple : I believe that none of the 
members of the Order can willingly harm each other. Some posts and 
thoughts here have been really intriguing for me, expecially those 
that express a very rational and detailed fear that JKR could do the 
really unexpected and show the evil side of a very trustworthy 
character, like DD for example. If you bear with me for a while, I 
will try to show you why I do not believe this to be coming to life.

Taking in consideration many great story tellers of our age (and of 
ages before us) and having read lots of "children's literature" (oh, 
how I hate this labelling!), I dare say that I can't believe JKR 
would play with our minds so much as to finally materialise our worst 
fears, in other words to uncover a great evil character behind that 
great father figure of Dumbledore. In my opinion, by doing that, the 
author would compromise her whole point of writing the books. Some 
points that have been made clear along the way (for me, at least) are 
the following :
1) You can be as ordinary as you can get, but you can still be a hero 
(Harry in the wizarding world is a hero, whereas in Muggle world he 
is "just Harry").
2) Evil can sometimes take the most unsuspected form (Quirrel vs 
Snape, impostor Mad Eye).
3) Choices are far more important than inclination ( Gryffindor is 
the choice of Harry, but if the hat was to decide his fate, it would 
chose Slytherin).
4) Help and love can be found along the way, from people you never 
expected (Sirius).
5) One does not have to be your biological father in order to love 
you and guide you the best way they can think of (Dumbledore), 
whereas your biological relatives can make your life hell (Dursleys).
6) Compassion and love are essential in the battles with our own 
demons as well as in our battles with external evil (Harry feels 
awfully bad about himself and lonely almost every time he behaves 
badly to his friends, but in addition all the people he has shown 
love or compassion have been kind to him along the way, like Dobby 
and Neville).
7) Being a teenager means being in doubt, but most of the fears we 
have as teenagers turn out to be bogus (that I say from my own 
experience...).

But most important of all, these books have shown me that when you 
keep faith to some things, like true friendship, you never lose. This 
can apply to Harry, but it can surely apply to other characters as 
well. Yes, Peter betrayed Harry's parents, but from my pont of view, 
it wasn't true affection he had for Sirius ot James, it was awe 
(until he met another wizard who really made him gasp in awe, I might 
say...) and envy. He was faithful to them simply because they put up 
with him, not because he loved them. Sirius, Lupin and James are 
another story. It is like the trio that is depicted between HRH. Real 
friendship. That is something that remains always true and 
cherrished. It cannot be altered by years, by circumstances or by 
even by fate. It may change forms, but it still remains strong and 
true. 
The same is with Dumbledore. He has true affection for Harry. It may 
blurr his judgement a bit, but his intentions can never be evil. Why? 
Because he can be strong in his goodness, he doesn't need the Dark 
Arts or the fear of the others to feel strong. He is strong in his 
kindness, in his love for all beings. He does not discriminate 
between races (he could trust Hagrid with his life) and he always 
tries to win his battles by reason and not by force. He has a 
profound faith in the goodness of people, and he always tries to 
summon this goodness from the bottom of their hearts, if he can (for 
example, he has faith in Snape to teach Harry occlumency, and even if 
the latter fails him ,he doesn't seem to be angry or something. He 
understands).

I, for one, cannot believe that all this can change in the course of 
the books. Maybe with the twitches in the eyes and the frailty in the 
voices, JKR just tries to remind us that nobody is perfect, many good 
people can be the subject of evil powers (I cannot imagine a smarter 
way than the Cruciatus Curse to make impecable characters do evil 
things) and even the most solid personas can make mistakes. But that 
is the end of it, they are just mistakes that make the path more 
difficult and twisted. In the end, I do not think that these books 
need any more villains than they already have. The evil ones are 
right before our eyes, more dangerous than ever, it does not serve a  
purpose for the writer to make us witnesses of an evil so profoundly 
hidden, that we can close the books and not have any shred of hope 
that something in this world or in other worlds is worth it.


Thank you for your patience, feel free to comment or raise the hands 
in favour af all the good guys!

cheers
holly_phoenix_11