Ever so evil ? was Dumbledore's role in Sirius' death

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 99030

Neri:
> >  When you wrote that Kneasy got the wrong man, I was  
assuming you meant the right man is ESE!Lupin. Did I 
understand you  correctly? BTW I was just starting to work on my 
ESE!Harry theory as  a pure exercise, but as the clues fall into 
place it seems more and  more logical...<<

Pippin:
Yes, that is what I meant. And I know the feeling <g>

Kneasy:
>> Good oh! Another potential character assassin!
 It's quite possible that Kneasy has got the wrong man; not that 
that would bother me much. My posts are constructed as mental 
exercises in a last ditch attempt to stave off a decline into 
mumbling senility and addiction to TV soaps as much as 
anything else. And I just love playing with words.
 
 But you put your finger on a key point; the ambiguity of character 
in the books. Once you start to look it's almost certain that you'll 
find phrases, actions that are incongruent with the accepted 
consensus of their role in the story. So you look a bit closer, and 
wonder a bit more -  is that a clue or a red herring? Who knows? 
But it'd make a fun post. <<

Pippin:
The ambiguity lends itself to the intellectual exercise. But there's 
something else in it for me.  HP is a bildungsroman about a boy 
who has neither family, friends nor teachers who care about him 
until  he comes to Hogwarts. Naturally he tends to idealize  them. 
The fairy tale atmosphere of the work invites the reader to 
escape into this fantasy along with Harry -- who wouldn't want  a 
friend like Ron, a father figure like Dumbledore, a brother as 
devoted as Sirius, a teacher as brilliant as Lupin?  But Harry is 
being brought, slowly and inexorably, down to earth.   What has 
he still got to learn?

 In real life your beloved friends, family and teachers can let you 
down. They can, though they honestly care about you and vice 
versa, knowingly and deliberately act against your interests. And 
ironically enough,  because they do value the relationship, they 
may do it behind your back. 

 Of course that's what Ron thought Harry had done in GoF.  
Some readers thought Ron had violated some sort of code by 
even suspecting Harry. They've been expecting ESE!Ron ever 
since. 

But what Ron really did was violate the reader's expectations by 
accusing  Harry of something no idealized friend would ever do.  
Ron understands that even in the magical world just caring 
about someone doesn't make you a saint. Harry has yet to learn 
it.

 The question of course, is what will happen when he does.  I 
don't expect Harry, or the books, to descend all the way from 
romantic idealism   to  nihilism, though it could happen, and that 
would give us ESE!Harry, I suppose. But I suspect the books will 
lend themselves to the conclusion that ideals exist and have 
value, even if none of us can live up to them

"It is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after 
all, perhaps some day make them come true." — James Branch 
Cabel.

Pippin
also  awaiting ESE!Harry