HatingDH/Dementors/...Draco/.../KeepSlytherin House

[prep0strus]

No: HPFGUIDX 177687

 
> lizzyben:
> > I'm just not sure what JKR wants us to think of DD. I think he's an 
> incredible character & a great villian. LV is boring, but DD is 
> facinating in his manipulativeness, duplcity & Machievilian schemes. 
> And JKR did a wonderful job of hiding his true nature for 6 books, 
> yet still dropping enough clues to make us suspect his real 
> character. I can't stand DD, & but then it seems like the text wants 
> us to forgive & admire him. JKR still called him a "great & 
> irreplaceable man," & "brilliant." Meanwhile, we all thought she 
> said negative things about Snape because she had to reflect 
> the "Harry Filter" after HBP, but then it turned out to be that no, 
> she just really dislikes Snape. I'm not sure the "Harry Filter" 
> plays any role at all - JKR means what she says. When she hopes 
> she'd be "worthy" of Gryffindor, and condemns Slytherin, I think she 
> means that too. 

Prep0strus:
I'm confused as to why so many people HATE Dumbledore at this point,
especially Slytherin lovers. We learned a lot about him, and he is not
perfect, by any means. But he is, by and large, good.  It sounds like
many of his failings are failings we see in Slytherins - ambition,
arrogance, secrecy, the willingness to use people for his own means. 
But, his means are for GOOD.  Now, well meaning intentions don't mean
you can't still do evil - one could even argue that his intentions
with Grindelwald had some amount of altruistic intent, at least in his
own mind.  but towards the end of his life, Dumbledore was devoted to
defeating Voldemort - yes, he was willing to sacrifice other people
for that cause.  But he was also willing to sacrifice himself.  He
didn't trust other's judgment as much as his own, but how many people
do? He was the most powerful, the one who had defeated a previous evil
dark lord...

I'm not defending everything Dumbledore does.  He's certainly flawed.
 but a 'great villain'?  There's nothing villainous about him.

And yet, over and over we have to see this effusive praising of Snape.
 Just as obsessed with secrecy, just as arrogant, no braver.  Why in
the world would Snape be a hero and Dumbledore not?

People seem truly angry with Dumbledore's character, and make him out
to be 2nd to Voldemort in evil, and I just don't get it.  Is it
because we were trained to believe he was perfect, and he wasn't?  Is
it the reverse effect?  People love to love a guy like Snape, who
seems bad, but is good, but if someone seems good, and isn't perfect,
they have to be castigated?

If there are two flawed heroes, both who do things wrong, but try to
do the right thing... I'm still going to the like the one who is kind
to children and who makes an attempt to inspire and show love.  Not
the one who's nasty and bitter and takes it out on the world.

~Prep0strus(Adam)