Dumbledore's plans in HBP.

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"lupinlore" <rdoliver30 at ...> wrote:

> Well, once again we are back to JKR
> trying to get across a clear moral
> message, and failing in a dismal way.

I don't believe JKR is trying to send a moral message clear or
otherwise, nor should she. Like any novelist her first responsibility
is just to write a good story. Therefore in her books we have no
reason to assume good will always be rewarded or evil always punished.
Fortunately. 

> 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. 

I think that is true and I think that's one reason her books are so
good. If you want to send a moral message send a Email, if you want to
tell a story write a book.

> yes, the issue of Harry being abused, 
> and Dumbledore allowing it and evidently 
> approving of it, is the very heart of the problem. 

Well, I suppose Dumbledore though Harry being abused was better than
Harry being dead. I tend to think pretty much the same thing myself.

> I did not come up with that infamous
> "epitome of goodness" comment. But 
> since she made it, I do hold JKR to it. 

Why? History will remember the books not the interviews. When she was
writing OOP she said it would be shorter than GoF, she was wrong and I
don't care.

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