Blame, blame, blame....

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 100721

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> That's the spirit!
> Sorry, Anne, but just for once I have to agree with Alla. I may be 
wrong
> (many thousands nod enthusiastically) but I don't consider that a 
valid
> reason for being uncertain. We're at the roulette table placing our 
bets
> and the ball is still bouncing around the wheel. Some of the bets 
will
> be made by 'rational' methods - analysis of the plot, JKR's track 
record,
> clues, etc., some are based on personal prejudices (I don't like 
*him*.)
>


Alla blinks. Looks at the computer, rereads the first sentence of 
Kneasy's post and blinks again.


She wants to go and check her eyesight tomorrow to make sure that she 
read Kneasy's words correctly. :o)



snip
 
> I strongly uphold the convention that posters should not indulge in
> personal insults or rudeness directed at other posters, but 
fictional
> characters are fair game (even the sitting ducks) and if someone 
wants
> to go for DD's throat like a rabid ferret, then good luck, well 
done, we've
> got a lively thread here lads, might keep us entertained for, ooh, 
at
> least a week. Then it'll be someone else's turn.
>


Exactly, thank you! Could someone please point out to me where in the 
rules of this list it is written that characters are to be 
awarded "equal treatment" in the debates? :)


.
snips.
 
> Which brings me back to the current thread. What to make of this 
lot?
> 
> What caused the debacle resulting in Sirius's demise?
> 
> Causes:
> Harry's inability to put his hatred of Snape in perspective.
> It poisons all interactions between the two. No compromise was 
possible
> in his view even when instructed that it was necessary.
> DD being too clever by half.
> Snape not admitting that it wasn't going to work. He's the one in a
> position to judge progress  or lack of it. He should have insisted 
that
> DD take over long before it blew up.
> Sirius being Sirius, especially when he intimated to Harry that 
Harry
> would have his support if *in Harry's opinion* Snape was being 
nasty.
> In Harry's opinion Snape is *always* nasty. And here's Sirius, his 
role
> model, bolstering his prejudices.
> 
> Split 'em how you like. Half full or half empty? None is blameless,
> but it's Harry's total intransigence that sets the avalanche in 
motion.
> 
> Kneasy


Actually, Kneasy, if I go into my analysing mode, I may as well agree 
with your list of causes, which contributed to OoP mess.

But see, that is not going to last for too long. Because of course it 
is Snape's fault. :o)


Alla