Dumbledore's plans in HBP.

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 162776

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Lynda Cordova" <moosiemlo at ...> 
wrote:
>
<SNIP>
> Lynda:
> 
>  Every series I've
> read, every trilogy movie group I have seen has what I call a "dead 
spot" in
> the middle ( I intensely dislike The Empire Strikes Back although 
the Star
> Wars Saga is my favorite set of movies--mostly due to the time in 
my life it
> was released--it made my adolescence a truly magical time). 


That is a good point.  I have never cared much for "Empire" either, 
although many people find it their favorite of the Star Wars saga.  
Unfortunately for this "dead spot," however, is that its where the 
moral problems of the Potter series begin to become very clear, 
perhaps because of the extended absence of plot and action.  Thus 
Snape' child abuse, the reprehensible failure of the adults to 
restrain Umbridge or punish her after the fact, and Dumbledore's 
incompetence and contemptible policies with regard to Harry being 
abused become very clear -- despite JKR's attempt to rescue DD in the 
early pages of HBP.


> I do think it will be very very interesting to see what JKR does 
with moral
> messages she gives in the last book and how they interweave with 
what has
> already been established. 

Well, the problem is she has a LOT of interweaving to do and not much 
time to do it in.  That is the real hole she's dug for herself.  
Frankly, I expect her to fail pretty miserably, especially on the 
moral front, or at best to come up some insipid and utterly 
contemptible idea about Harry forgiving all those who have abused him 
over the years because it's DD's example (never mind that DD stood by 
and watched approvingly, or at least silently, as it happened), and 
these people going unpunished.

But then again, a train wreck is a fascinating thing to watch.


Lupinlore, who approves of justice, which does indeed contain an 
element of revenge in practice if not in theory