Bad Writing? No.

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 163000

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" <eggplant107 at ...> 
wrote:
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> 
> Now I'm confused. First you say JKR is a great fan of child abuse then
> you say that is not the message she wants to send. 

Never said any such thing.  What I did say was that JKR sends multiple 
messages in her books, some intentional and some not.  Some she is 
clearly VERY interested in getting across.  Where she gets into trouble 
is when her unintended messages interfere with her intentional ones.

Like it or not, JKR has made EXTREMELY clear that she wants people to 
have a certain view of Dumbledore.  Fine and dandy, but if she wants 
people to have that view, then she is responsible for any deviations 
from that picture.  DD's consent to Harry being abused, and his seeming 
inability to clearly express regret, remorse, or apology for many of 
the instances (even totally ignoring the Umbridge situation altogether) 
create massive noise in the "Dumbledore frequency."  

Then again, noise on the frequencies is nothing new.  Tolkien used to 
swear up and down that people were not supposed to equate Sauron and 
Hitler.  But the message he sent, probably unintentionally, said 
otherwise to lots of folks.


Lupinlore