What HP Character Scares You Most?

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No: HPFGUIDX 191870



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Corey overton <coverton1982 at ...> wrote:
>
> >> (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/12)
> >> Ebony AKA AngieJ:
> >> I think it bears discussing here. We are all adults (or close
> >> enough to it)--are there any aspects or characters in the Harry
> >> Potter books that creep you out?
> 

I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but afer reading the entire series, Dumbledore has creeped me out. Certainly I can see why Umbridge or any of the "bad guys" would send a chill up people's spines, but they're supposed to do that. I've come away from the series as seeing Dumbledore as a puppet master - controlling Harry's early life, isolating himself, supremely confident in his own wisdom, not sharing important information with his allies, setting up puzzles to be solved and secrets to be ferreted out, rather than telling people everything he knows (what was the point of the Order??? Follow anything DD says without question?))

And conveniently being brought back into the story to continue the wise, old mentor act even after death. For someone who was held in such wide regard in the Wizard world, who could have asked for and been given any position he wanted after the first war with Voldemort, doesn't it seem odd that he wouldn't have gone to Azkaban to ask Sirius what the hell happened with the Potters?  But, why bother, since now he could control Harry's childhood, without any interference from a potentially pesky godfather?  Better to control everything he could and eliminate any potential obstacles.  

The bad guys are supposed to be bad. It's comfortable, and even pleasurable in a weird way, to be disturbed by them.  It's much more unsettling to find the chief good guy, the leader of the forces of light, to be morally suspect.

Marianne