OOP Dumbledore

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 65044

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Melinda Leydon 
<melindaleo at m...> wrote:
> Shef said:  Dumbledore was the LAST person Harry needed to see at 
that
> point. He 
> really, really, really needed Mrs. Weasley. He needed someone to 
hold
> him and comfort him and let him grieve. Instead he gets locked in
> Dumbledore's office and told that it's OK to feel what he's feeling,
> but please, calm down so I can tell you about this prophecy. Oh, and
> by the way, I know you just lost the most important person in your
> life and everything, but always remember that House-Elves should be
> treated with respect.
> 
> ME:
> 
> YES!!!  I thought this too!  You've avoided telling him all this 
time (when
> you should have just told him at the beginning of this school year 
after the
> Dementor attack) and instead drop it on him when he is at his most
> vulnerable!  I was like, "what the. . . .
> 
> I didn't like Dumbledore much in this one either.
<SNIP>
> Melinda

ME:
I, too found the "usual" wrap-up with Dumbledore to be very forced, 
odd and out of sync with what Harry needed and was feeling. All I can 
account for it is the urgency with which Dumbledore felt he needed to 
act. (This book shows me Dumbledore's fallibility unlike any of the 
previous books)He'd waited too long and to wait another minute would 
be to endanger Harry further, something that he finally realizes he's 
been doing inadvertantly and can no longer risk. I am sure the point 
at which Voldemort possessed Harry and Harry cries out (in his 
mind???) for Dumbledore to kill him, I am sure that must have shaken 
the headmaster to his roots. It still shakes me up. 
JenD