Warriors (was: The problems with DD being gay)

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> 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. 
> 
It is a very interesting suggestion that there was in fact, no duel. 
If that is the case then it becomes in some ways an earlier version 
of Harry's walk into the Forest to confront Voldemort. Did Dumbledore 
go to Gellert and just say 'This has to stop and I am here to stop 
you. You have the Elder Wand so a duel will result in my death. Is 
that what you want?' It does strike me as a very Dumbledorean scene 
and would fit in with his idea that love and the sacrifice it often 
entails, is in the end the only way to defeat evil. The rest of the 
WW without the knowledge that Gellert loved/had loved Dumbledore 
would have assumed that he had defeated him by Power and skill alone. 

This would also add a reason to Dumbledore's refusal to accept the 
post of Minister for Magic. It was offered by those who wanted the 
powerful vanquisher of Grindlewald in charge, when Dumbledore knew 
that he had not defeated him by use of 'power' at all.

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