Dumbledore's plans in HBP again WAS: Re: Cohesion

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 162688

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> 
wrote:
>
<SNIP>
> Carol responds:
> Come on, now, Lupinlore. We all know how you feel about Snape and
> Dumbledore, but there's no need to resort to sarcasm or to revile JKR
> because she doesn't share your views. 



Well, once again we are back to JKR trying to get across a clear moral 
message, and failing in a dismal way.  Not, I think, because she has 
any great plan or ace up her sleeve, but because she doesn't think 
things through before she opens her mouth and firmly inserts her foot.

I did not come up with that infamous "epitome of goodness" comment.  
But since she made it, I do hold JKR to it.  And frankly, if she 
believes Dumbledore's behavior and policies are consistent with being 
an epitome of goodness, then she needs to make a stringent defense of 
that, since child abuse is never a good thing.  And yes, the issue of 
Harry being abused, and Dumbledore allowing it and evidently approving 
of it, is the very heart of the problem.

Actually, I don't really think that JKR thinks very much about selling 
her moral message, since her time is spent trying to work out her plots 
and outlines.  And therein comes many of her most egregious mistakes, 
since she assumes the moral themes are clear in the plots, when in fact 
they are often unclear and sometimes border on the contemptible.  Thus 
Dumbledore the "epitome of goodness" approves of Harry being abused 
because JKR wants Harry's life to be a challenge, DD the "very wise 
man" lets Draco get away with attempted murder because she wants to set 
up a particular scene, Ron's status in the trio waxes and wanes 
according to what she needs him to do, Harry's emotional reactions are 
bungled and unbelievable because she doesn't want to deal with them, 
the issue of parents in the wizarding world is rarely brought up 
because no parent in their right mind would tolerate what goes on at 
Hogwarts, Hermione acts in -- controversial -- ways because it helps 
move the plot along, no one acts to defuse the obviously disfunctional 
attitude of Snape toward Harry because she wants the plot to build to a 
certain point, the plots Voldy engage in are contrived and incompetent 
beyond all belief, etc.

<Shrug> It will all be over before too long and we will see how she 
handles it all.  Personally, I suspect we'll have several nods in 
multiple directions which, like those of HBP, will only make things 
worse, by and large.  But I notice she has been much more circumspect 
in her last two or three interviews.  Maybe she has finally come to 
learn wisdom in this regard.

Lupinlore, still looking forward to the lovely spray patterns the blood 
from the coming train wreck will make