[HPforGrownups] Re: JKR messed up........ no.

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 178419

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> Carol:
>
> However, I do wonder how DD became what Draco calls an "old Muggle
> lover," given the effects of the incident with the three Muggle boys
> and Ariana on his entire family's lives, and I think we can connect
> that incident to his attitude toward Muggles during his brief
> relationship with Gellert Grindelwald. He ends up reading Muggle
> newspapers, enjoying Muggle sweets, liking chamber music and ten-pin
> bowling (Muggle pastimes, surely?)--all indications of a wider
> interest in Muggles, IMO, and certainly a far cry from wanting to rule
> Muggles and Muggle-borns for "the greater good." Does anyone else see
> a gap or disconnect between the young Dumbledore, both before and
> after the two-month friendship/infatuation with GG and his ideas, and
> the older Dumbledore, whom we see at his youngest with Tom Riddle in
> HBP? Certainly, he felt guilt and remorse for Arizna's death, but how
> would that lead to tolerance for Muggles? Maybe having a Muggle-born
> mother had something to do with it, but Kendra was not an ideal
> mother, and she's the one who hid Ariana in the first place after the
> incident with the Muggle boys. Am I missing something?


montims:
I read it that, GG having run away after Ariana's death, DD's brother gave
him a good talking to, not to mention a bloody nose, and DD resolved to come
to his senses and reject all the theories GG had once enflamed him with...


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