[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore WAS: Re: Love and Joy vs. Hate and Despair

[June Ewing]

> Alla:
> June, the advice that always works if somebody finds somebody
else's posts annoying, crap or whatever is not to read them. My
interpretation of Dumbledore annoys you? That's fine, start the
thread saying how great Dumbledore is, or do not read my posts.
It always worked for me. There are plenty of topics which were
discussed here which I never cared for, so I stayed away from
> them. I however never called them "crap".

 
June:
No, my problem is (and the problem that just made someone leave
the group) is that people are steering away from the subject and
creating a new version of the books. The books have already been
written. This is why I got sarcastic and said you should go back
and read the book and pay attention. I don't know, maybe some
people aren't understanding the books but Dumbledore was not
trying to kill Harry. It is true that he told Snape that Harry was
being brought up to die but what you do not understand and what
Dumbledore did understand once he knew what they were up against
is that Harry himself was a horcrux and the only way to destroy 
the piece of Voldemort's soul in a horcrux, is to destroy the
horcrux.

That too is why Harry had to have ownership in the elder wand, the
cloak of invisibility and the resurrection stone. The one who owned
all three controlled death. Dumbledore also knew that and I believe
so did Albeforth who (though Harry didn't know it till close to the
end) was helping Harry. Dumbledore knew by having all these Harry
could survive but he had to be willing to sacrifice himself as his
mother had sacrificed herself so he could live. Dumbledore was not
the villain and I do not understand how you and others have confused
this but you seem to be trying to rewrite the books and I personally
like them the way they are.