Cold Fish Dumbledore

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 154220

> Tonks:
> Just because you can know how a psychopath thinks doesn't mean that 
> you *are* one yourself.  Once a psychopath, always a psychopath.  
> That is the only type of Personality Disorder that can not be fixed. 
> The damage is done very early in infancy.  If a person can't bond 
> with other, they can never bond with others.  So DD was *never* like 
> LV!!
> 
Pippin:
Ah, but if Harry  is a message of divine love, empowered by
Lily's sacrifice, then surely a miracle is not beyond its power? 
(Interesting, then, to think of the Dursleys as a blistering
critique of the guardians of that message over the years.)

 I am not saying that Harry or Dumbledore *did* anything to
bring this about, except that Dumbledore made a lifelong effort
to live as though he did feel love for his fellow beings (and 
incidentally seems to have done a better job of it than those 
more culpable folks who take their ability to love for granted.)

 My understanding is that it's possible for a psychopath to do 
that, though by making Dumbledore so fantastically old when
he experienced a bond, Rowling insulates herself from raising 
false hopes for real people. It is interesting that all the 
emotional attachment Dumbledore shows is for Harry. We
can't tell if he feels attached to anyone else.

We have questioned how  Dumbledore, if he didn't believe in 
the prophecy, could know from the beginning that Harry had the 
extraordinary power that he speaks of. What better way than if it 
had transformed Dumbledore himself? 

It really isn't enough to say that Voldemort feared Dumbledore
because Dumbledore was such a powerful wizard. Dumbledore
was still a powerful wizard when Voldemort attacked him in OOP. 
Even the fact that Voldemort knew he could survive death
doesn't explain it, because he fled Quirrell's body rather than
attack DD in PS/SS. Something had to have changed. 


Pippin
with small hope that anyone will be won to this theory,
since we do seem to love our characters warm and fuzzy in 
defiance of theme and  logical plotting. Of course JKR knows 
this...