Choice and Essentialism/Understanding Snape)

[steven1965aaa]

No: HPFGUIDX 154002

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:

And we do have a character who is just such a cold fish, who
speaks of love in terms of power rather than feeling, who seems to
understand the need for emotional support only intellectually, and yet
is regarded  as a good man, indeed the best of them. Albus Dumbledore. 
> 
Steven1965aaa:

A cold fish?  Sorry Pippin, I don't see where you get that, at all.

I can think of no indication anywhere in the books that DD sees love 
on an intellectual level only.  Just the opposite, really.  That 
recurring gleam in his eyes, the way he "beams" at Harry.

Now I admit that we don't see many examples of DD on an emotional 
level, but IMO that's simply because he's pretty old and we don't know 
his personal/family history, and because we see him when he's relating 
to the students.  He's not the protagonist of the books, so we're not 
privy to whatever love/family life he had in the past. We do have at 
least a couple of examples of him acting on an emotional level, such 
as when he was teary eyed when Harry said he was DD's man through and 
through in HBP, when he was talking about how it was his feelings for 
Harry which caused him to make the mistakes he refers to at the end of 
OOP.