Double standards and believing

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 120971


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" 
<delwynmarch at y...> wrote:
> 
> Here's the explanation : the core kids are Harry's friends, who 
are basically the Weasley kids plus Hermione. They all believe 
Harry without questioning, blindly : none of them has ever seen
 ressucitated!LV or the DEs. And yet they are supposed to be the 
kids who made the best choices. Why? Why is it good *for them 
only* tobelieve their friend blindly? Why is it good *for them only* 
to follow their parents? In short : why is it good for them to do 
things that other kids have been berated for doing?<

Pippin:
Is it good for them?... at the end of OOP, they made a dreadful 
mistake by following Harry to the Ministry. 

Although Harry's loyalty in CoS saves him, I think the moral 
lesson there was about refusing to despair, not about being 
blindly devoted to anybody. Harry needed to have faith in 
something in order to give him the courage to resist Voldemort. 
His faith was not that Dumbledore was always right, but that 
Dumbledore would not abandon Hogwarts...I wish he had been 
able to hold onto that faith in OOP but he had to learn the hard 
way.

 We keep trying to find a formula for the characters making the 
right choices, and there isn't one, IMO. That's why making the 
right choice is *hard* and Dumbledore feels pity, not 
vindictiveness, toward those who make the wrong ones.

I would like to see Hermione grow in Dumbledore's direction, not 
Snape's.

Pippin