Warriors (was: The problems with DD being gay)

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 178271

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "va32h" <va32h at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lizzyben04" <lizzyben04@> wrote:
> 
> > lizzyben:
> > Smarmy & vicious she may be, but Rita Skeeter did get the inside 
> > scoop on the "Life & Lies of AD" & much of her reporting turned out 
> > to be correct. In this quote, IMO she's indirectly referring to the 
> > DD/GG relationship, and implying that GG simply gave up when DD 
> > finally confronted him - or even that GG voluntarily came to DD to 
> > accept defeat. This would help explain why DD would be able to win a 
> > duel when GG had the "unbeatable" elder wand. Maybe they never 
> > dueled at all. 
> > 
> 
> va32h:
> 
> But why would Gellert do that?  Why would he voluntarily give up his
> power and let himself be imprisoned just because his old pal
> Dumbledore asked him to?
> 
> My interpretation of Rita's comments was that the duel was not a
> "duel" per se but Dumbledore fighting dirty, using such cruel and
> heinous methods that Grindelwald was forced to surrender. 
> 
Montavilla47:

Maybe Dumbledore defeated Grindelwald with the Power of Love?

It is sort of odd how we hear that rumor and then we never
get an answer about the famous duel.  Can you give someone the
power of the Elder Wand by surrendering it?  Perhaps 
Dumbledore was able to appeal to whatever humanity 
Grindelwald had to persuade him to surrender and thus
got the wand?

I could see that falling into the theme of love.  But it's
certainly not played out in the text.  It seems like 
one of those interpretations one *can* lift (or
dig out) from the books, but can just as easily
be denied.

Montavilla47