JKR and the obvious

pippin_999 foxmoth at qnet.com
Tue Jul 12 11:59:51 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 132521

> Mira: "The idea about a spy in the Order is also good and likely to
> come true. The most surprising and thus the less obvious, for me,
> would be that Dumbledore himself is a spy ('He is no more DE than I
> am', 'If we cannot trust Dumbledore we cannot trust anybody' etc),
and that he does the right thing only because it is to his advantage.
But I really don't believe this is true. It will all be so pointless
if it is."

Jim Ferer:
 
> It would also be the biggest betrayal of her readers by an author
> ever. It would be unforgivable.  What would JKR be telling her
readers if she made Dumbledore evil, a spy? 1) Nobody is any 
damn good; 2) Get  others before they get you; every man for 
himself,  and 3) Good is not  real. Only evil is real.  I don't think
for a minute that's what JKR's doing.

Pippin:
Not for a moment do I think Dumbledore is evil. But I do think there
is a spy (Order members are already being picked off one by one) and
the spy is someone Harry thinks is good. The challenge for Harry will 
be to go on believing in goodness once this person is revealed. Idols 
often turn out to have feet of clay; it doesn't mean the things the 
idols were supposed to stand for don't exist.

Pippin






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