Why down on all the characters?/ Dumbledore

[Dana]

No: HPFGUIDX 179420

a_svirn
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> I did not get the feeling that Dumbledore felt any remorse about or 
> admitted to any fault in his infamous plan. He did conceded the 
> flaws – poor Severus didn't end up with his wand, for instance, but 
> those are flaws in the plan, not in Dumbledore. 
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Dana:
I didn't get the feeling that DD had any remorse about his doings 
either. He says he is sorry for not telling Harry about the Hallows 
because he didn't trust Harry enough to not go after the power of the 
Hallows as DD did himself but otherwise he feels totally righteous 
about all he has done to help destroy Tom Riddle. Besides what is the 
point of a death guy having any remorse? It is not like he can atone 
for his doings in the living world anyway, it only means he will not 
end up like LV. 

Personally what it comes down to for me when it comes to DD is indeed 
that we as a reader are still expected to see DD as a presentation of 
the ultimate good. And although JKR has denied that she sees him as a 
God, it still feels like DD's character is still a representation of 
how she views God and seems to be a refection on her own doubts and 
her faith in God. So in other words all who had blind faith in him 
are still the better people then does who distrusted or actually went 
against him because in the end God always knows best. 
Personally I am not specifically interested in the author's problems 
with her faith, I am not a Christian and although I have no problem 
with the Christian content of a book or it doesn't distract me from 
the story because these ideas are not mine, but I have to admit this 
part isn't working for me. 
 
Anyway I just wanted to point out that it was NOT DD's intention for 
Snape to end up with his wand. His intentions was for the wand to no 
longer have an owner and thus its power dying with DD. The wand would 
not have been overpowered by Snape because the death of DD was 
arranged. What wasn't arranged was Draco disarming DD and thus 
becoming the wand's master but in the end it doesn't matter because 
as (authorial) fate would have it, Harry disarmed Draco and thus 
transferring the wand owner ship to him because the wand is so 
intelligent that it knows even when not present that his real own of 
that time is actually defeated, which makes the end of the book when 
Harry asks if the wand will lose its power after his death entirely 
bogus for the simple fact that if Harry is ever (which of course he 
won't because the author will not allow anyone to mess with her 
Harry) defeated the person unknowingly would become owner of the 
elder wand too. 

I thought I just pointed this out.

JMHO

Dana