[HPforGrownups] Re: Why down on all the characters?/ Dumbledore

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 179456

Shelley:

My point was the
believability of it in the context of the story JKR wrote.

Lynda:

I understood your point. Mine is this. Harry is action oriented. He does
rather than talks. He, along with Dumbledore and Snape was raised with
secrets and lies. Don't ask questions. Don't call attention to yourself.
Your parents were killed in a car crash.Yeah, he lets things moulder in his
mind for months or years and he does let little tidbits slip out like how
much he dislikes living with the Dursleys, but then he acts like when he
just rushes up and kisses her after the quidditch game. He hates living with
the Dursleys and doesn't like his cousin--but when the demontors come after
him, he rescues him. Of course he has had seven years of mutual antagonism
toward Snape and a goodly amount of angst concerning Dumbledore, but as is
true to his preestablished pattern he acts rather than talks about it,
although probaby after a good deal of pushing it around in his mind--again
that's his pattern and then proves his ability to forgive by acting and
naming one of his kids after both Dumbledore and Snape.  When a pattern has
been preestablished by an other for such a long time I don't expect a
deviation from it, so I was neither surprised nor disappointed.

Lynda


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