Has Dumbledore something in common with Lockhart?

[Granny Goodwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 82956


On 15Oct03, Eric Oppen wrote:

"One thing that strikes me as I reread OotP is that Dumbledore may be coming
to the end of a long time when he was basically able to coast along on his
reputation.... and his judgement may have become faulty. ...Rita Skeeter may have been on to something when she called Dumbledore an "obsolete ding bat" in that article referred to in GoF."

Granny responds:
Oh really, please!  A little justice here.  I'm not prepared to give Rita Skeeter one bit of credit.  Dumbledore says himself at the end of OoP, page 728, Bloomsbury Edition: "For I see now that what I have done,  and not done, with regards to you bears all the hallmarks of the failings of age.  Youth can not know how age thinks and feels.  But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young... and I seem to have forgotten lately..."
 
>From DD's words, it's quite obvious that he knows and admits that no one can coast on his reputation.  This  is not the admission of an "obsolete ding bat", rather, a wise and good man coming to the realizarion that we all reach our peak and must face decline. But obsolete?  Really!  Wisdom is never obsolete.  I prefer to see Rita as the ding bat since she has spread nothing but useless hype, misunderstanding, and discord.
 
Granny



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