A James Rant - Who was This Guy?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 181383


Pippin: 
> > The advance article about Rita Skeeter's Dumbledore book also 
> > introduces the idea of a great duel that never happened. 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> You mean Albus and Gellert? Am I missing something? Do we know for 
> sure that duel never happened or we are just guessing? Or do you mean 
> different duel?
> 

Pippin:
It doesn't matter for my argument whether the duel happened or not.
What matters is that Dumbledore is accused of doing what Voldemort
actually did -- boost his reputation by inflating a lopsided contest won
by dubious means into a spectacular battle against a powerful enemy.


> Pippin:
> <SNIP> 
> >> It's interesting that like the so-noble Sirius with his  brother, 
 Lily  did nothing  but turn her back,  while the wayward Aberforth 
confronted Albus and brought him to his senses, albeit at a 
 terrible  cost. Suppose Lily had been willing to do what Aberforth did, and
confront Snape and his "precious little Death Eater friends" 
directly?
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Hmmm, very good point about Aberforth. I do like that he confronted 
> Albus, but as you said it happened at the terrible cost. Are you sure 
> that JKR thinks this type of confrontation where innocent dies is 
> better than what Lily did?
> 
> And actually what do you mean confront directly? Lily DID confront 
> Snape directly, no? Or do you mean she had to duel with Mulciber and 
> Co?

Pippin:
Aberforth confronted Gellert and Albus together, so Albus couldn't
pretend to himself that Gellert would leave Aberforth alone. It is
too bad that Aberforth didn't protect Ariana first, but I think he 
wasn't prepared for Gellert to attack anyone.  Still, a lot of  lives
were saved because Albus came to his senses.

Lily knew that Snape's DE friends were dangerous, so she might
have been better prepared if she had gone that route. But  I'm not
talking about a duel, just Snape having an opportunity to realize that
his friends weren't going to treat Lily differently just because he did.

Pippin