Harry's grief (was: Dumbledore the General)

[phoenixgod2000]

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Betsy:

> As to the Kreacher thing.  Harry was looking around for a scapegoat.  
> Dumbledore, I think, was making sure Harry could not put Kreacher in 
> that role.  That was incredibly important because Dumbledore was 
> correct, Kreacher was what wizards had made him.  Yes, the polite 
> thing is to not speak ill of the dead, but Dumbledore had to make 
> sure that Harry didn't take the easy way out and put all the blame on 
> Kreacher.  (Harry lets go of Kreacher fairly easily - so I think a 
> part of him recognized the problem there.) 

Phoenixgod2000:

Besides finding the Kreacher talk in amazingly bad taste, I thought 
DD was wrong. He spoke about Kreacher being what other wizards *made 
him* but in other books he made sure Harry realized that it was the 
choices a person (or creature) makes which define them. He told that 
to Harry when in CoS Harry realized he and Tom Riddle had a lot of 
similarities. DD can't have it both ways. Either we have choices and 
Kreacher used his to help get Sirius killed (and therefore deserves 
Harry's blame) or we are what our environment shapes us to be. Which 
means DD did even an worse job with Harry by creating a similar 
living situation to what created LV.  

We can't be both what we are created to be and what we choose to be. 

phoenixgod2000