Pensieves objectivity AND: Dumbledore's integrity

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 79454

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kirstini" <kirst_inn at y...> 
wrote:
 He may be a 
> stroppy little adolescant, and many of his assesments may very 
well 
> be off-base, but you can't deny that his view towards DD *is* more 
> realistic. Perhaps not true, but more realistic than the idea that 
DD 
> is infallible, which is just as much of a false hope to give 
> children. It's what children *do* as they enter adolescence - they 
> discover that their parents aren't perfect, are fallible, and they 
> react by going over to the opposite side for a while before 
(usually) 
> reaching some area of compromise in their feelings.
> 
This reminds me so much of that quote by Mark Twain!  "When I was a 
boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have 
the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how 
much the old man had learned in 7 years." ;)

Wanda