[HPforGrownups] Cold Fish Dumbledore

Peggy Wilkins enlil65 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 22 15:42:09 UTC 2006


No: HPFGUIDX 154174

On 6/22/06, pippin_999 <foxmoth at qnet.com> wrote:

Pippin:
> If Voldemort saw in Dumbledore the one person who was like himself,
> and *that* is why Voldemort feared him, then it makes sense that
> Voldemort would lose that fear when he discovered that Dumbledore
> had become "one of those fools who love" after all.

Peggy W:
But Voldemort had plenty of reason to fear Dumbledore anyway, due to
what we might call Dumbledore's "prodigious wizardly powers" and, more
importantly, the fact that Dumbledore was "onto" him and clearly not
susceptible to Tom's charismatic charms.  Dumbledore established this
at their first meeting, and it never changed.  I think the reason Tom
feared Dumbledore was because he had no means of controlling or
subduing him.  That is quite sufficient for Voldemort, I think.

In my interpretation, Dumbledore is isolated because he has so few
people capable of being his equal.  That doesn't mean he is unfeeling,
it simply makes him less likely to... how to put this... swing along
with the crowd.

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Peggy Wilkins
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