Dumbledore's actions again. WAS: Re: Snape and the "Chosen One" /JKR listening

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No: HPFGUIDX 153736

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...>
wrote:
<SNIP>
>
> The story is about that, the *gleam* is about that, and Petunia's
> connection to Harry is most definitely about that. In the
> Potterverse those other options simply don't exist. If JKR
> invented other options, she'd also have to invent reasons why
> Dumbledore couldn't use them.

And so, what's your point?  The idea that "It has to be this way or
the story couln't work," is no excuse whatsoever.  JKR is the one
who has created these problems and contradictions, JKR is the one
who will have to fix them or leave serious flaws in her epic.

A person who finds a counterfeit bill is under no obligation to
shrug and say "Things like that happen in any economy."  A person
who finds a serious contradiction and flaw in JKR's depiction of
the "epitome of goodness" is under no obligation whatsoever to shrug
and say "DD had to do it that way or the story wouldn't work."  That
is the worst and most monumental of copouts.

> Pippin:
> But she has toyed with the idea of Puppetmaster!DD from the
> beginning, contrasting it with Knownothing!DD and
> EpitomeofGoodness!DD. The mixed message about Dumbledore has been
> there from the beginning, and is more evident than ever at the end
> of HBP, so why look at the opening chapters of HBP in isolation
> and say 'this is the Dumbledore JKR meant to depict all along and
> the others were unintentional.'

Has she toyed with those?  Or has she just not been very clear about
what she's trying to get across?  Puppetmaster!Dumbledore is one
option to resolve some of her contradictions, at the cost of
shredding the "epitome of goodness" to tatters and making herself
into an out and out liar.  <Shrug>  Either way, there are
counterfeit bills circulating here, to continue the metaphor.  No
one is under any obligation at all to give her a break on that, or
much less to allow her the total cop out of "Dumbledore had to do it
so the story could happen."


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