Dumbledore versus General Iroh SPOILERS for Avatar the Last airbender LONG

[potioncat]

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Alla wrote:
>
> So in light of my increased unhappiness with Albus Dumbledore 
lately 
> I started thinking about wise old men with the beards or without 
it. 
> In particular I was trying to figure out if there are any wise old 
> men in the literature or movies of this genre that I like more than 
> him and why.
> 
 
> General Iroh is an uncle to the teenager who started the show as 
> being the main antagonist, I guess.  So I do understand that in a 
> sense his mentoring role and Albus' role is a little bit different, 
> since in a sense Iroh' mentoring role is to force prince Zuko to 
> choose the right side.

Potioncat:
I'm not familiar with those characters. I assume it's ongoing--that 
is, any twists or surprises aren't yet known. But I don't think DD 
ever saw his role as mentor to Harry. He was trying to raise up this 
boy to fulfill his destiny.

For us modern folk who don't really believe in destinies---at least 
not to the same extent as our ancestors---that's kind of a hard idea 
to accept. But given the genre, that's what DD was doing.

Secrecy was DD's big flaw, that and being certain he had all the 
answers. Then again, maybe those were his strengths too. I'm not sure 
if he could have been very different and still reached his goal of 
defeating LV.