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

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No: HPFGUIDX 99056

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:

> 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?
>

Hate to be a wet blanket, but I wouldn't.

Bildungsroman I can take or leave alone; what matters are the
glorious puzzles - the what when who dunnit.

All the characters are JKR's - not mine. And so is the story. Yes,
it's good, but there are other books I pick up and re-read in 
preference to HP. 

I see only one fully developed character in the series, and that's
Snape. I sometimes worry that this perception of mine is solely
because he is a mystery -  and when that is resolved (in JKR's
terms) he may be revealed as something mundane. That would
be a personal tragedy. The other persona I do not engage with 
except at the most superficial level.

Maybe it's because I'm a fair bit older than the average age for 
members of the site, but most of the cast stereotypes have 
turned up at some time or other in real life and have not been 
particularly profound or engaging.

The DD type can be particularly irritating, spouting Delphic
profundities when all you want is a straight answer.

No, I  don't confuse HP with reality or it's characters with real
world complexities, it's harmless fun, to be taken with a large
pinch of salt. But the puzzles! Ahh! Now you're talking! If A does
this to C without D knowing, what will be E's likely reaction when 
B lets the cat out of the bag and why?

So in the meantime  (and as a hedge against disappointment) I 
devise convoluted explanations based on incomplete evidence.
That's what attracted me to HP in the first place - it's a play-
ground with very elastic boundaries, solely because the tale
is not yet told.

Haven't a clue what I'll do when it is.

Kneasy