Why down on all the characters?/ Dumbledore

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 179463


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."

Absolutely. Most of the time it's his great strength. When it's his
weakness, he has Hermione.

Lynda: "He hates living with the Dursleys and doesn't like his
cousin--but when the Dementors come after him, he rescues him."

Yep. Draco, too, even, more than once.  And, he took steps to protect
the Dursleys.

Lynda: "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."

You're right, Harry always rises above his less worthy feelings, just
because he's a man of action. He was angsty and frankly annoying in
fifth year and rose above it when the stress was relieved. 

With Snape, though, it's always easier to forgive a dead guy. If Snape
lived they still wouldn't be mates, nor would they have to be.

Lynda, I don't have a problem believing this, either.

Jim Ferer