Deathly Hallows Reaction - Could do Better, Sorry

[dananotdayna]

No: HPFGUIDX 173958

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "saxifrage_" <camckenzie at ...>
wrote:
>
> >Goddlefrood says:
>  Dumbledore's back story I did like, it made a great
> > deal of sense. He could quite easily have mentioned
> > that Horcruxes are not too difficult to destroy, as
> > they ultimately proved. That information seemed to me
> > to have been withheld for no especially good reason
> > before its revelation from the book Hermione had
> > summoned.

-WeasleyWannaB:
> As I was reading your post, this just occurred to me.  The
whole "horcruxes are difficult to
> destroy" is a giant red herring laid temptingly in our paths.
After HBP, most of us think that
> DD's blackened, dead hand came from destroying the Horcrux.
Actually, it was from his
> lapse in judgement in trying to use the resurrection stone.  Much
of the fun of good fiction is
> that we don't see everything coming and we are led to misinterpret
things.


Dana now:
Personally, I thought it was hilarious that the actual reason DD
wouldn't tell Harry what happened to his hand was that he was
clearly embarrassed about making such a goofy mistake.  And that all
the way to the end (even after the DOM debacle), he was hiding
things from Harry for the short term priority of getting Harry to do
what he needed him to do at the moment.  I spent the last six months
arguing the HiddenAgenda!DD to my HPBookClub to a reception of much
rolling of eyes and protests like:"He's so wise and good, though,
how can not have Harry's best interests at heart?" etc.
The scene explaining the blackened hand actually had me LOL

Dana,
who loved that Harry did grow up before he saved the day and loved
that DD was just as flawed and falliable as everyone else