[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry as godfather (Was: Sirius Black's role in DH -- why?)

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 179220

zgirnius
I would love it if someone could point to some canon basis for the
(apparently popular) opinion that Albus would not hesitate to knowingly
destroy the life of an innocent human being if it served his purposes or his
vision of "the greater good". Personally, I cannot wrap my mind around this
view.



Sherry:
I guess what I took out of DH about Dumbledore, and I admit, I didn't care
much about DD by the time I reached DH, it seems to me, that's exactly what
he did, from the moment James and lily died.  Of course, then there'd be no
story, no seven books.  But in the beginning it seems to me, that Harry was
nothing more than a tool to him.  He left a child to the untender mercies of
abusive people, and all for his so-called greater good.  It's really
despicable to me, and isn't mitigated by the fact that he ended up loving
and caring for Harry later.  Even the great blood protection was only to
keep Harry alive long enough for him to die killing Voldemort.

In the end, all that mattered for me in the series was what happened to
Harry and his generation, so I'm not particularly invested in DD or most of
the adult characters.  But Dumbledore did end up seeming to be nearly as
horrible as Voldemort, only in a different way, of course.  He is not an
epitome of goodness to me, not that I ever really did see him as such, but
he is definitely not one to me now.

Sherry