Our changing perception of characters

[nikkalmati]

No: HPFGUIDX 192314





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> Lynda:
> Of course my feelings toward the characters changed as the series
> revealed their characters! Unlike some others, I did not develop a
> dislike for Lily, nor did I one time suspect that her love for James
> was spurred by his family's wealth. I think she simply did not want to
> be friends with a boy who called muggles mudbloods and did not accept
> his non-magical parentage. As for Dumbledore's manipulativeness, I
> figured that at near the beginning of SS, so there was no big reveal
> there for me, other than how surprised so many people were about that.
> The clues were all there as to that aspect of Dumbledore's character.
>

Nikkalmati

Well, I don't think SS had ever used that word before, so it is not as though  his use of the word was the reason she refused to see him any more.  At least I hope not.  They were friends and had been for many years.  She alone knew about his home circumstances.  I doubt she could have blamed him for not accepting his abusive father.  I don't think she dated James until well after she stopped seeing SS, so the incidents were not connected.  She apparently thought James was a "toerag" and Harry even wondered if James had given her a love potion to make her marry him, so I was just wondering what made her decide James was her future husband.

As for DD, I am not sure you are thinking of the same degree of maipulation as has been suggested by some (not necessarily me).  Do you think he let SS go after he heard the prophecy so that he could tell LV and then LV would create his own nemesis?  Do you think he let Sirius be sent to Azkaban so that no one else would have any influence over Harry?  Do you think he placed Harry with the Dursleys for the same reason - so that DD would be his only mentor in the WW - all to the purpose of getting Harry killed by LV, because he knew from the first that Harry was a Horcrux?

Nikkalmati