Innocent Alby?

[Renee]

No: HPFGUIDX 122973


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:
> 
> 
> Tonks wrote:
> Again this is the anger that some people feel toward God at times. 
> And DD had to put Harry with Patunia to protect Harry, it was the 
> only way.
> 
> Alla replied:
> 
> NO, sorry, to me it is the kind of anger at the character , who 
> decided to play G-d. 
> 
Renee, now:
May I add: and anger at the character that was made to play God by 
his creatrix, but without being given the proper qualifications? 
It's one thing to say that God moves in mysterious ways, but to 
suggest such a thing of a fallible human being is something entirely 
different. 

JKR has said DD is the epitome of goodness, but that still doesn't 
make him God - unless she's trying to suggest DD is God's second 
incarnation on Earth after Jesus Christ, but somehow I don't think 
her own beliefs would allow her to do this. And if he's not God, 
criticism of his actions, whether on a textual level (seeing them as 
based on DD's own choices) or on a meta-textual level (seeing them 
as based on the author's choices) can't be countered with a 
reference to the way God works.  

In other words, to me the rift between stated authorial intentions 
and the text as we have it creates a problem here. This can be 
partially solved by seeing the series as a development from pure 
fairytale to a more "realistic" form of fantasy-cum-mystery, but as 
the Dursleys continue to play an unpleasant role in Harry's life, 
this doesn't entirely work. It works best if I can see the whole 
series as symbolical and largely non-realistic.

Still, DD is one of the few characters that never entirely worked 
for me. I can't throw JKR's qualification of DD overboard without 
simultaneously doubting her characterisation, and if I retain it, I 
find myself doubting her assessments that some things (such as the 
suddennes of Sirius's death) are only realistic. From time to time, 
this kind of thing tends to give me an "anything goes" feeling that 
undermines my admiration of JKR as a writer and makes me think this 
is really no more than a piece of very clever entertainment with a 
dash of hazy personal philosophy added to the mix.

Renee