Thoughts on OOP (SPOILERS)

[Ximena Valdivia]

No: HPFGUIDX 67205

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pegruppel" <pegruppel at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "tarisuprapto" 
> <tarisuprapto at h...> wrote:
> Tari
> > Dumbledore is certainly human as well --as evidenced in the last 
> > pages of OOP.  Whether are not there are other plans at work, 
that 
> > remains to be seen; it's been a lot of fun reading other 
people's 
> > speculations and analyses.  
> Me:
> That's sad, but it also makes DD more human.  His great 
> age, power, and apparent wisdom made us all forget that he's a 
> person, not an icon.  
> I suspect that so much of the disappointment that some posters 
have 
> had is the great disillusionment with DD.  He's just a man, and we 
> all wanted him to be so much more.  We wanted the ultimate Daddy, 
and 
> we got a human being instead.  That's something we have to deal 
with 
> in real life, and it just doesn't seem fair to have to deal with 
it 
> in a work of fiction.

That's really truth, and somehow I think I(we) all saw it coming 
since book four. In the first three books soething horrible 
happened, Harry saved himself and DD fix thing and everything was 
great again. In book 4 that does not happen and If I remember 
correctly, Harry says it that by the first time, DD does not have 
the way to solve things out. Some readers feel the same way, I 
recall a friend of mine reading book four and suddenly she called me 
and told me "plz tell me DD is going to fix it all up" becuase she 
could not belive that DD could have been defeated some way. In book 
five is the same thing multiplied by 10

> Tari:
> > I'll end by saying that I am loving McGonagall more and more.  
Her 
> > arguments with Umbridge were priceless and the subtle egging on 
of 
> > Peeves ("it unscrews the other way") is just too precious for 
> words. 
> 
> Me:
> I've loved McGonagall from the beginning of the series.  I always 
> knew, from the episode in PS/SS when she was willing 
to "rearrange" 
> the rules so that Harry could play Quidditch, that she wasn't 
*quite* 
> as stuffy as she made herself out to be.  And her episodes of 
getting 
> teary-eyed over other people's disasters told me that she was a 
real 
> softy.  More power to McGonagall!
> 
> Peg

OH she made my day!! I hated sooo but sooo much (is the first time I 
manage to hate a character of the book) and none seem to stop her 
and then McGonagall did it!! well, she and the twins. I loved her 
determination when she told Umbridge that she will do everythiing to 
make Harry and Auror. Kuddos to her!!!

Ximena