[HPforGrownups] Hermione and her parents redux WAS: Re: Wizarding Top Ten

[Rick H. Kennerly]

No: HPFGUIDX 188036


> Alla:
>
> See, this I find hard to understand. I mean, we debated Hermione and her parents
> so many times by now and I doubt anybody will move a lot from their POV, 
Ah, where there's a canon there's a conflict.  Spoken as a survivor of 
many Sherlockian scion debates. 
> I do not like manipulation and deciding for others in RL and canon, but for
> example, no matter how much I hate Dumbledore's manipulations, if he was
> manipulating for example to SAVE Harry's life instead of slaughtering him, yeah,
> I would be more inclined to forgive him, in my book saving a life just may be
> worth it
Well, wouldn't amount to much of a story, though, much less a canon. 

Another point of view, however, is that DD isn't manipulating as much as 
educating and toughening HP.  Even Snape as he's leaving Hogwarts in HBP 
is really teaching Harry a lesson about life outside the gates.  The 
choice is always HP's.  And, as JKR takes care to point out throughout 
the series, it our choices that define us.
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Rick Kennerly
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