Olive Branch (was Re: Dumbledore the Counselor )

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 124491


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Charme" <dontask2much at y...> wrote:
> 
<SNIP>
> 
> I rather get the impression that those on the abuse and
accountability issue 
> want to "see some punishment" (I'm using Filch's words from CoS - it
just 
> seemed to fit) of DD about what Harry's gone through. Given what
she's said 
> about DD in the past, I don't believe that's going to happen (and maybe 
> already did in a different fashion in OoP,) so maybe some fanfict will 
> satisfy your need for justice after it's all over.
> 
> Charme
> 
> Charme

There are certainly plenty of fanfics that do that.  Actually, I don't
think most of us want to see Dumbledore punished as in going to jail
or being physically harmed, rather we would like to see a form of
accountability that comprises Dumbledore expressing more sorrow and
remorse for what Harry went through.  He did that to an extent in
OOTP, but then his rather cold, cut-and-dried explanation about why he
left Harry with the Dursleys pretty much ruined it.  He seemed to be
saying "This is why I did it, that's all I'm going to say, and you
don't have any right to complain."  Had he evinced more remorse and
emotion during his explanation, I daresay 90% of the anger toward
Dumbledore in many quarters would never have arisen.

Lupinlore