HBP Chapters 27 - 30 post DH look

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No: HPFGUIDX 184459

"Oh yes, I do," said Dumbledore mildly. "You almost killed Katie Bell 
and Ronald Weasley. You have been trying with increasing desperation 
to kill me all year. Forgive me Draco, but they have been feeble 
attempts... So feeble, to be honest, that I wonder whether your heart 
has been really in it" - p.585


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.


"Take that!" shouted Professor Mcgonagall, and Harry glimpsed the 
female Death Eater, Alecto, sprinting away down the corridor with her 
arms over her head, her brother, right behind her. - p.599


Alla:

After reread of this battle I realised that I will cut Minerva a 
slack as well for her erm...less condemning reaction to Harry's 
Crucio. I think she wanted both of those guys suffer for a long time 
starting from this moment.

Before questions will be asked, I am cutting her slack as individual 
who IMO suffered trauma here, not as teacher, who just must have 
correct reactions all the time.


"He had known there was no hope from the moment that the full Body-
Bind Curse Dumbledore had placed upon him lifted, known that it could 
have happened only because its caster was dead, but there was still 
no preparation for seeing him here, spread-eagled, broken: the 
greatest wizard Harry had ever, or would ever, meet" - p.608


Alla:

And all I can think of now is poor Harry. When I think of the 
coldness with which Dumbledore just immobilised him to watch the show 
he arranged to happen (Snape killing him), ugh, it makes me sooo 
angry at Dumbledore.


"And he knew, without knowing how he knew it, that the phoenix had 
gone, had left Hogwarts for good, just as Dumbledore had left the 
school, had left the world... had left Harry" - p.632


Alla:

Please believe me, I cried every time I read this sentence, I mean I 
cried for several minutes first time and shed a tear every time I 
reread it before DH came out.

And now all I can spare is giggles. Don't you worry Harry, Dumbledore 
will be quite nicely pulling strings from beyond or from his 
strangely smart portrait in book 7.

I hated Dumbledore's actions before DH, I was not as I mentioned 
before particularly surprised by even more revealed manipulativeness 
and I am just honestly struggling to think what tipped the scales for 
me. I mean, I know I repeat it again, but I find it amusing how I 
could not stand *so many of his actions* and still when I was 
thinking of his character as whole, I thought of him as good man.

Oh no more.

I think I was hoping that he genuinely cared about people despite 
necessity of making tough choices. I do not think that he ever cared 
about anybody any more. I believe that he came to love Harry, sort of.


That concludes my HBP reread guys. Thanks for reading my random 
impressions.

Alla