Dark Book.

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 "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

> Dumbledore could have gone the way of Gellert Grindelwald

It could be argued that Gellert Grindelwald was also redeemed in book
7, he tried to stop Voldemort by lying about the Elder Wand.

> I agree that the message that blood
> doesn't matter is rather garbled. 

Blood (heredity) does matter, it's just that it's not the only thing
that does matter. 

> Not a single Slytherin student
> fights for Voldemort 

Crabbe and Goyle do.

> Draco stops Crabbe from killing or Crucioing
> Harry.
 
Because of Voldemort's orders.

> the narrator ceases to be unreliable. No more
> comments about Snape as the man Harry hated.
 
I don't believe the narrator was ever unreliable, at one time Harry
did hate Snape as much as he hated Voldemort.

> No more assertions that Dumbledore
> betrayed Harry.

And there can be little doubt that Dumbledore did betray Harry, he had
to for the greater good.

> naming his second son for two 
> flawed but brilliant headmasters 

Yes, it shows that Harry has forgiven both of them.

> We are not supposed to admire James
> and Sirius, the Gryffindor bullies. 

There may be some truth in that. James must have had some good
qualities because so many people we admire say nice things about him,
and Lilly (a very good person) did marry him; but that's not what we
readers actually see, all his hypothetical good acts seem to happen
off page.

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