[HPforGrownups] Re: Does JKR sees ambition as a flaw?

[Mrs.) Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force]

No: HPFGUIDX 99759

Wanda writes:
| Based just on the HP books, I think it DOES look as if JKR
| disapprove of ambition, except in certain cases.  I know Harry is
| supposed to be ambitious, but I can't say I've seen much evidence of
| it.  An ambitious person tends to have long-term plans, and Harry
| has few, if any.  Oh yes, he now has this idea of being an auror,
| but that seems a bit half-hearted to me.  He isn't burning with
| passion for the idea - it was suggested to him by (fake) Moody in
| GoF, and he just latched onto it, almost for lack of anything else.

[Lee]:
Yes, the idea was suggested by Fake Moody, but I have to think he said he
wanted to be an auror to really stick a needle in Nasty Umbridge. :-)  Of
course, the last thing in the universe Umbridge would want is for this
"liar" to be an auror; he would probably upset the status quo...which, in
the final analysis, he did end up doing.

Lee :-)
(Who would have dearly loved to hear the unearthly crash of all those
shelves and prophecy balls.)

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