[HPforGrownups] Olive Branch (was Re: Dumbledore the Counselor )

[Charme]

No: HPFGUIDX 124495


>Lupinlore uttered:

> 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.
>

Charme:

I don't know that he didn't express enough sorrow about the situation per 
canon.  I'm referring to that single tear, and DD's admittance that Harry 
wasn't as nearly angry with him as he ought to be, and asked to be heard out 
fully before Harry attacked him as he would like to have fully "earned it." 
At least he had the, well...said nicely, intestinal fortitude to get it all 
out in the open.  I also refer to this:

"'It is time,' he said, `for me to tell you what I should have told you five 
years ago, Harry. Please sit down. I am going to tell you everything. I ask 
only a little patience. You will have your chance to rage at me - to do 
whatever you like - when I have finished. I will not stop you.'" (OoP)

Please, if you could be so kind, help me understand where that statement 
infers or alludes to the cut and dried explanation interpretation in your 
post above given that statement by DD.  I'm really curious because I don't 
see it the way you do, and that's why I'm asking. I'd also like to know what 
form of accountability would satisfy those who believe as you do, as I'm not 
sure what else DD could have said other than the truth.  The truth is a 
wonderful, terrible thing and often it's not embellished - people who need 
the truth need to hear it (especially when anger is involved) without much 
emotional fanfare.

 Interestingly, the one time DD shows emotion by closing his eyes and 
burying his face in his hands (before the truth and the tear at the end), 
Harry as the narrator's point of view perceives this as a weakness, which 
funny enough, rather reminded me of Snape's statement to him earlier in the 
book during Occulmency where he compares people who wear their hearts on 
their sleeves to being weak.  Not sure why it did, but there you have it.

Charme