In Defense of DD (was Re: DD's dilemma)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 126568


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" 
<bob.oliver at c...> wrote:

Lupinlore:
> You use the metaphor of God or a Saint to describe 
Dumbledore.  <snip>
> 
> Which is only to say, in the end, that if you can buy the 
Dumbledore  JKR is selling, more power to you!  However, that 
does not change the  fact that I, and many others, simply cannot.

Pippin:
JKR has a powerful literary precedent for calling Dumbledore 
good and yet leaving his motives for allowing Harry to suffer the 
Dursleys in doubt. The Hebrew scripture never explains why  the 
Chosen People had to suffer slavery in Egypt. Generations of 
commentators have struggled to reconcile the captivity in Egypt 
with their concept of a benign and all powerful deity. It could be 
that for JKR, getting people who normally wouldn't recognize a 
theological issue if it danced naked in front of them wearing a 
tea-cozy to wonder about such a thing is more to her purpose at 
this point than providing an answer. 

Pippin