CHAPDISC: DH35, KING'S CROSS/ SPOILERS for Master and Margarita

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No: HPFGUIDX 185122

3. Where do you think Dumbledore spends his days now?

Alla:

I thought I will answer this and the next one with my own thoughts 
basically to clarify couple particular points that I had in mind when 
I wrote the questions.

So, despite my mostly unpleasant feelings about Dumbledore I really 
do not think that he is in a bad place now based on author's 
intentions at least. But I sort of wanted to explore possible 
distinctions between good place and very good place and whether 
people would think that Dumbledore would deserve one and not another. 
Please read on and hopefully the previous sentence will make more 
sense. I wonder if anybody on the list (besides Russian speakers that 
is, I am sure they did heh) have ever read the novel called "Master 
and Margarita' by Russian author Michail Bulgakov. It is a story  
about what was happening in the Moscow during the 30s years of the 
twentieth century, it is a story about great love, it is a story 
about a Satan who looks so so much nicer in comparison to some people 
who serve the regime. Oh and another story is a story about Christ, 
which Master writes and of course all stories are beautifully woven 
together and IMO end up very satisfyingly. However, here is a thing, 
at the end of the novel both Master and Margarita die in bodies, but 
their souls get to live and receive their reward. But heaven would 
not take Master, the messenger of Heaven basically says that they did 
not deserve Light, but they deserve peace. Master and Margarita get 
to spend eternity in the nice cottage where Master can write in the 
candlelight, etc, but he is apparently not deserving enough to go on 
to see the Light.

Now, do not ask me what his offense was, I do not know, and I mean 
his reward is not a punishment, definitely not. However, it does not 
appear to me to be whatever counts for heaven either.

So to go back to Potterverse, Zara mentions that Dumbledore in her 
view is visiting with the family, etc, and I think I agree, however, 
I wonder if he is considered as deserving to go on whatever counts as 
heaven in Potterverse if anything.


4. The theme of the hero given a choice whether to rest or to go
back and possibly be hurt more or prevail over the enemy is fairly
common in the fantasy genre. When Harry makes his decision to go back
did you feel at any time that he is going back to die for real now?
Explain why or why not.


Alla:

I thought I will answer this one as well to bring another book that I 
had in mind that to me shows that in the situations like that heroes 
do not always get their happily ever after. Anybody read "The last 
Herald Mage" by Mercedes Lackey? Main character also gets a choice 
and goes back to defeat the evil pretty much knowing that he will die 
and  he is not even getting his after life happily ever after with 
his beloved till several centuries later.
I mean as I mentioned before I read spoilers, but even then I did not 
feel totally safe that Harry will survive.