Gryffindor & Slytherin roles (was Villain!Dumbledore)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 177770


> Magpie:
> So they're fine the way they are. They don't need to be challenged 
> in this way and they weren't. Though the last thing I'd call any one 
> of the Trio was powerless, and I actually don't think there's 
> anything wrong with pointing out the power kids often do have over 
> other kids and other people. 
> 

Pippin:
Um, no, they're not fine the way they are. But sometimes the need for 
reassurance is greater than the need to be challenged. Despite all
the wonders Harry can perform,  in each book except the last he is
ultimately rescued by an adult*, and that says something about the
relative power of adults and children in the Potterverse and in RL.

As Harry's story shows, even middle-class kids from nice families
are not always well cared for. But even when they are, they still
live in a world haunted by terrorism, school-shootings, and global
threats of war and natural catastrophe against which they can do
almost nothing except learn and hope.

Pippin

*PS/SS: Dumbledore
CoS: Dobby, from Lucius Malfoy
PoA: Snape (the rescue of the unconscious Harry from the grounds)
GoF: Dumbledore, from Fake!Moody assisted by Snape and McGonagall
OOP: Dumbledore
HBP: Snape