Which character inspired you or Compliment a character take 2

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 184546

 "dumbledore11214" wrote:
>
> So this should be easier than complimenting characters we dislike :)
> 
> Pick one quality or action of the character you like and tell us 
(with 
> canon help of course) why you would want to have that quality or 
maybe 
> that you are happy that you have it already.
> 
> Please, stick to one quality for each character, but you can 
mention as 
> many characters as you wish.
> 
> For example, I  know that if the circumstances arise that I will 
> definitely want to take the child of my dead friends (hopefully 
not) in 
> and bring him up as my own, just as as Sirius wanted to bring Harry 
as 
> his own son.
> 
> I would **want** to be as brave as Harry and to fight against evil, 
but 
> that I am not hundred percent sure if I have it in me, but I know I 
> would try.


Potioncat:
First, the second part.

I was very tempted, when this post appeared to respond to "Sirius as 
a source of inspiration". Then I had an actual flash of Divination. 
The thread would turn to Sirius and his promise to take care of Harry 
vrs Severus and his promise to take care of Harry. A tennis match 
would follow with no real point made...oh, wait, that isn't 
Divination, that's a flashback!  ;-) 

My next thought was to choose a character as a source of inspiration. 
Everyone I thought of, no matter the esteem which I may hold for him 
or her, is tainted in some way by less admirable traits. Boy, this 
set of characters is very human!

But there is one character who has actually inspired me over the 
years. There has been one piece of philosophy which has come to mind 
in many situations when I have started to waiver. I don't have the 
quote remembered exactly, but I have the gist, "...to do what is 
right over what is easy." It isn't "do what is right, not what is 
wrong"--do what is right rather than what is easy. I've faced that 
situation many times.

So Dumbledore, with all his faults and failings--and whether he lived 
up to this ideal or not--has been my source of inspiration.