[HPforGrownups] Re: Resurrection Stone

[meann ortiz]

No: HPFGUIDX 180909

l.anne120 wrote:
I'm wondering why Harry didn't see Dumbledore when he engages the
resurrection stones.


zanooda replied:
Only in "Kings Cross" Harry learns that DD knew he wouldn't die, that he
only wanted Harry to believe that. But as Harry walked through the forest to
his death, he believed that DD sacrificed him to the cause without a second
thought. He even thinks of "Dumbledore's betrayal", meaning that he believes
at this point that DD betrayed him - not exactly the person to call to cheer
you up before death :-)! That's how I see it, anyway.


My reply:

In the Time Magazine Person of the Year interview with JKR (
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/personoftheyear/article/0,28804,1690753_1695388_1695569,00.html),
she was asked: Why doesn't Fred appear in the woods at the end as well?

She answered:  "...I wanted Harry to be surrounded by his mother and James
and Sirius and Lupin, all of whom had died in a way for him. You know Lupin
had laid down his life in Harry's battle, he didn't have to come back, he
didn't have to fight. James had died trying to protect the family; Sirius
very obviously had died fighting along with Harry, and then his mum who most
explicitly had died for him. I never thought of bringing Fred back at all.
It was all the previous generation, and they were all strongly parental
figures for Harry."

We can probably argue that, in a way, Dumbledore died for Harry too and died
for the Anti-LV cause like Lupin and Sirius.  But maybe Jo was thinking
along the lines of people whose deaths are tied closely to Harry
specifically.  But the line between those 4 people who appeared and
Dumbledore when it came to Jo's reason for deciding who will appear is kinda
blurred for me personally.  But that's from Jo's POV.  If we look at it from
Harry's POV, I think I'll agree with zanooda.  Harry resented him, and if I
were in his place, I wouldn't really want to see Dumbledore at a time like
that either.  :D

---*meann


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