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

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Geoff:
> I am afraid that I do not subscribe to the view you express "that people 
> are steering away from the subject and creating a new version of the 
> books". With more and more story emerging, each character is being 
> fleshed out in greater depth and we see that many of them do not have a 
> simple agenda but are influenced more subtly.

Alla:

Very true. It would be very nice if we all realize that nobody's interpetation is a final infallible version. Even if you (of course not you Geoff) think that you know the ultimate truth of what the books are about. Other reader thinks the same about their interpetation. Nobody has to agree with it of course, but as far as I am concerned nobody has a right to be appalled at somebody having interpreting books so drastically different from you that you cannot see how such interpretation could be possible.

Ha! I suddenly thought of Evil!Lupin here, which our Pippin defended for years and years. Did I for a second think that Lupin is so evil? No most definitely not (although couple of times I came dangerously close lol), but it was brilliantly argued and it was ALL based on canon. You think Pippin was rewriting the books? She was interpeting it and even if I was thinking that it is not possible, I respected it as brilliant theory. The problem is of course that now canon is closed and our interpetations will pretty much stay the same IMO.

When we debated ad nauseaum whether Snape killed Dumbledore because Dumbledore ordered him so, or because Snape was  evil and Voldemort's servant, of course I thought Snape did it because he is evil. Of course I wanted him to do so because he served Voldemort for real.

The thing is we KNOW he did not do it because he served Voldemort for real, period. Canon is closed on this issue. I cannot say that it happened my way, because it did not happened my way and I will sound quite crazy if I do so.

But with Dumbledore? Totally different story. As far as I am concerned, even if for other readers (some or many) canon provided justification of Dumbledore's actions, for me for the most part it did not. He is not Lord Voldemort of course, but as far as I am concerned he has plenty to answer for in his afterlife. That I am afraid is going to stand in my mind.


Geoff:
 As has been said, we don't 
> have to read a thread if we don't like it. I, for one, have studiously avoided 
> threads about Snape because I don't like him as a character - and still don't!
>

Alla:

YES!  I remember those geographic threads you guys did (with Shawn?). I found  it very educational for myself to read them often enough, but I was never (or almost never) tempted to join in. It was not my cup of tea type of discussion. I stayed out of it.