[HPforGrownups] Did Dumbledore ultimately redeem himself?

[Ellie NC]

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Being abused by the Dursleys sucked but it was better than being dead, which is what would have happened if he did not call Petunia's house his "home". The blood protection was everything. 

Sara


 
> On Dec 25, 2015, at 5:00 PM, 'Sherry Gomes' sherriola at gmail.com mailto:sherriola at gmail.com [HPforGrownups] <HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com mailto:HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com> wrote:  Sherry now: 
 I disagree. I loved Dumbledore till about book five, and by the end of DH I despised him. I don’t think he was bad, but good people who are willing to sacrifice anyone or anything in the accomplishing of their goal, don’t impress me. Much as I dislike Snape, I agree that Dumbledore raised Harry to be like a pig for slaughter, or however Snape said it. He placed Harry in a situation where he was unloved for sixteen miserable years. He was physically, emotionally and verbally abused. In the real world, if Child Protective services saw a family lock a child in his room and put bars on his window, they’d take that child away and lock up the people doing it to him. Dudley routinely beat up Harry, and his parents never stopped it. In book six, Harry thinks that experience had taught him to stay out of the reach of Vernon’s arm. They starved him, not giving him enough food. That was supposedly a safe environment. I don’t know about the blood protection, but it didn’t protect Harry from the abuse and cruelty in the home. And I never saw an incident in the books show us that Harry was ever protected from danger in the house. I’d have liked JKR to show us some situation where Harry was actually protected. 
  
 I won’t even get into Dumbledore never bothering to find out the truth about Sirius, because that’s another black mark. I’ll just stick with the thing of not believing the Dursleys were the safest best solution. But that hateful home life, sure made Harry love the wizarding world and want to save it, so Dumbledore got what he must have wanted.
  
 As for did Dumbledore redeem himself? For Harry, he did, so I guess that’s all that matters in the case of the story, but for me, he didn’t and never could. I’m not really a greater good sort of person though. I couldn’t sacrifice a child to protect a whole world. Glad I’m not a world leader!
  
 Sherry
  
  


 
 


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