Dumbledore WAS: Re: Love and Joy vs. Hate and Despair

[June Ewing]

No: HPFGUIDX 190911


>> June:
>> I think some people need to re read and understand the books.
>> Dumbledore was not evil, he was one of the good guys.

> Pippin:
> I think one of the ideas JKR is exploring is that in fiction we
expect to find "good guys" while in real life there are no people
who are always going to do the right thing except when some
> external force prevents them.

> But I do think we are supposed to see Dumbledore as acting for
the common good, except for those occasions when he admits that he
behaved selfishly. And I do think there were also occasions when
> external forces kept Dumbledore from doing as he would have liked.


June:
Exactly, Pippin. I think she wanted us to realize that Dumbledore,
like all of us, was human and humans aren't perfect. Dumbledore I
believe knew from the beginning that Harry may have to be sacrificed
(after all he did have knowledge of the prophecy) and he wanted to
prepare Harry for whatever was to come. People need to realize that
Dumbledore and Harry were put into the situation they were in because
of Voldemort. When Dumbledore found out about the horcruxes and
realized he didn't have much time left because of the injury caused
by the ring he destroyed, he had to hurry to help Harry to learn what
he needed to know. There were things that happened I am sure that
Dumbledore didn't count on, like the curse in the ring that burned
his hand and gave him a short time to live. He knew before his
passing, I am sure, that Harry himself was a horcrux and he realized
that that meant Harry would have to die as well, however he made sure
that Harry had a chance by giving the book, The Tales of Beedle The
Bard to Hermione, whom he knew would figure it out. The one who
possesses all three deathly hollows controls death (or something to
that effect). Dumbledore knew that if Harry could take possession of
all of them, he would be able to let Voldemort kill him to rid
himself of the horcrux within him and would survive. The stone was in
the snitch, the cloak he already owned because it was passed down
from his father (he was related to the third brother) and the wand he
took possession of when he disarmed Malfoy, who was the proper owner
at that point of the wand. Dumbledore made sure he did everything
possible to keep Harry alive and it worked.