HBP Chapters 27 - 30 post DH look

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No: HPFGUIDX 184519

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sherry Gomes" <sherriola at ...> 
wrote:
>
> > Alla:
> > 
> > Here is what I found myself wishing for. It is an absurd fantasy 
of 
> > mine, I know, but I can dream, right? I wish Molly and Arthur 
had been 
> > here under invisibility cloak and I wish they heard Dumbledore's 
cold 
> > account that he knew perfectly well who almost killed their son.
> > 
> > I would not mind for Katie's parents to be here too, it is just 
> > Weasleys I know well. I wonder if we would not have got 
something 
> > similar that Moley said to Bella in book 7. That was my son. 
You...
> > something.
> > 
> > Oh well, dreams, dreams.
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> Sherry now:
> Yes.  DD lost his glow for me forever with confirmation in DH, 
that he had
> known Draco's task all along and had just let a potential murderer 
run amuck
> in a school full of children, even nearly killing two of them.  
The oh so
> touching scene in the King's cross chapter of DH did nothing to 
repair DD's
> image for me.  His actions were unforgivable for me, both in 
asking Snape to
> kill him, in letting Draco run loose in the school and, well, 
don't even get
> me started on Harry!  I had begun having some doubts about DD ever 
since we
> learned about Sirius' history, but the revelations in DH finished 
him for
> me.
> 
> Sherry
>

I fully agree.  I confess that the last two books in the series have 
left me feeling that I'm in a foreign country with no hope of ever 
understanding the language, especially when the majority of people 
who have read all seven books seem to be okay with how the arc of 
the series ended. I fully agree with the idea that an author has the 
right to take his/her creations in whatever direction makes the most 
sense to him/her. But, in the grand Harry Potter scheme, I'm not one 
who is thrilled with where we ended up.

Having said that, I also have lost any positive feelings I had for 
Dumbledore after the last book. 

Marianne