Writers Fiat (was: Stockholm Syndrome - was No sympathy for Kreacher)

[lupinlore]

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 Maybe JKR realized that eventually 
> Dumbledore would have some explaining to do, and so, though she *had* 
> to follow the rules as much as possible, she made sure Dumbledore 
> didn't come across as completely heartless.  It worked for me 
> anyway. :)
> 
> Betsy

Very good genre discussion.  I think that the problem for most of us
on this side of the fence is *as the series has evolved including
OOTP* it just DOESN'T work for us.  In fact many of us find it...
well... at least repugnant if not downright reprehensible.

If the series had REMAINED in the kind of fairy tale mode established
by the early books, things might well be different.  But with the turn
in OOTP... it just sets DD up as at best a severely flawed figure, and
at worst, a downright vile one.

I think JKR probably intended to set DD up as a human (i.e. somewhat
flawed) but extremely good figure.  For most of us on this side, I
think, she has failed rather badly in that attempt to this point.  It
is possible that further reservations will improve matters.  But at
the moment I feel safe in saying that quite a lot of readers aren't
all that impressed with her portrayal of DD as it stands at the 
moment.


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