Dumbledore on the Dursleys in OotP (was:Re: Old, old problem.)

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No: HPFGUIDX 151244

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03" 
<horridporrid03 at ...> wrote:
>
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> Betsy Hp:
> Well, I'm not Jen R., and I usually send you screaming in the 
> opposite direction <g> but the transition *did* work for me.  
> Everything Dumbledore promised in this speech he did in HBP (less 
> than a month later, I believe).  He is treating Harry as an adult.  
> And the really cool thing?  Harry is *acting* like an adult.
> 

Which, of course, brings up a problem that many of us have with OOTP, 
which is that THAT (i.e. the way Harry's grief and relationship with 
DD is handled) just is not in any way believable.  Sorry, but it just 
smacks of JKR sweeping all of the issues of OOTP under the rug 
because they are too messy to deal with properly.  And perhaps that 
is where the transition issues come in.  For those of us who find the 
transition jarring, it means, sort of de facto, that we think that 
either the situation at the end of OOTP doesn't match HBP (Alla's 
position) or that HBP doesn't match the situation at the end of OOTP 
(my take).  Whether you look at it from one direction or another, for 
many of us it just doesn't work and isn't believable (i.e. JKR is 
trying very hard to sell a certain point of view, and whether at the 
end of OOTP or the beginning of HBP, we aren't buying).


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