Sense of Humor was Re: pictures of the founders

[Eustace_Scrubb]

No: HPFGUIDX 127137


Carol:
> I agree with JoAnna. It's a bit of comedy on the same level as his
> "few words" at the beginning-of-the-year banquest in Harry's first
> year (which, IIRC, is our first hint of his taste for puns). But the
> Chocolate Frog cards show just a touch of very human vanity in
> Dumbledore (who also, we find, occasionally needs a chamber pot and
is
> miserably inept in his choice of Bertie Botts' beans). I think all
> these instances bring him down to our level a little bit. He's not a
> clone of Gandalf--or any other character we've ever seen.
> 
> Carol

Eustace_Scrubb:
Dumbledore's certainly no clone of Gandalf.  But this is the wrong
example to use in that regard.  Gandalf had a humorous streak in him
not at all unlike Dumbledore's--and not just in _The Hobbit_, though
it comes through mostly in his dealings with hobbits (just as
Dumbledore's comes through mostly in dealings with the students).  In
each case, the "Big People" don't seem to get it.  They just see the
big powerful wizard lowering himself by involving himself with
inconsequential matters--a mistake some of the "Big People" later come
to rue.

I could definitely see McGonagall nervously asking Dumbledore outside
#4 Privet Drive, "You will keep an eye on him, won't you Albus?"
to which the reply would be: "Two eyes, as often as I can spare them!"

Cheers,

Eustace_Scrubb