[HPforGrownups] Sirius's hypocrisy was Re: Dumbledore's Hypocrisy/Sirius and Kreacher

[Mira]

No: HPFGUIDX 129292


--- pippin_999 <foxmoth at qnet.com> wrote:

> I don't think Dumbledore was ignoring Harry's
> feelings, however.
> I think he understood that Harry had found all this
> very 
> painful to hear. Why do you think he wept?
> .
[...]
> Voldemort is not the cause of the rot that permeates
> the wizarding world. He is a symptom. The rot is in
> the heart of
> every wizard who thinks he can lord it over other
> beings, whether 
> it is purebloods over muggleborns, or humans over
> House Elves. 
> 
> Harry has never been so contemptuous  of anyone,  
> but then he's 
> never been  treated as the Chosen One. Very soon
> now, Neville will be 
> wondering what it would be like to be the king. If
> contempt for
> lowlier creatures can destroy even as kind and
> generous a man as 
> Sirius was, what might it do to Harry?
> 
> I don't think Dumbledore's warning is before time.


I couldn't agree more. I've always thought that
Voldemort can be vanquished if and only if all
wizards, perhaps Harry included, would be willing to
purge themselves of Voldemort's spirit, to give up
that part of themselves that feeds Voldemort by, at
least, innocently using his methods. If and only if
wizards will be finally pure enough to not be afraid
to utter Voldemort's name would the embodiment of evil
be finally defeated. But of course this is too
complicated for the story, it is just a (quite
useless) thought.

As for Dumbledore's words to Harry, I think that grief
is so hard to bear because it disturbs our sense of
order, of purpose. If we understand why things happen,
they hurt us much less. It takes much courage and
willingless to suffer to face up the real reasons, or
that they might not exist; this is why it is so
comfortable to pass blame on somebody else and replace
grief with hate.

If Harry would have gone home without Dumbledore's
explanations, he would have tried to make sense of
thing in his own way, and almost certainly come to
consider Kreacher guilty, hate him and look for
revenge. It is not far from here to starting to like
Dobby less, because Dobby reminds him of Kreacher,
because in order to be an effective substitute for
grief, hate needs somebody so feed it continously. How
long would have been before Harry started to abuse
elves himself? How long before an abused elf would
have caused Harry's downfall? Then somebody else would
have suffered and needed to replace grief with hate,
then another prejudice would have been born, another
revenge, and so on, never to stop. Somebody has to
break this chain, and Dumbledore is right, I think, in
believing that Harry is strong enough to understand
and bear the real circumstances of Sirius' death and
not seek revenge. It is one of the most difficult
things in the world to be able to understand the
reasons that make people be hostile, to understand
that almost everything is reaction and not bad will,
but Harry has proven able to do it, and I think
Dumbledore is right to help him understand. In the
long term I think Harry will benefit from Dumbledore
not sparing him the truth.

Mira


		
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