Dumbledore questions...

[susiequsie23]

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Okay.

One general remark.  When I watched the 5th movie, I enjoyed it quite a lot.  AFTER, I left and began contemplating things, I became annoyed by what was left out, bizarre omissions or inclusions that didn't quite make sense given other items which were left in, the dropping of some Very Important Things.  I'm feeling a little the same way right now about DH.  While reading it, I enjoyed a lot of it very, very much (and also got just a wee bit tired of tents, like everyone else), but at the end, I began thinking of all the things you all have started to list as unresolved or flip-flops (staff spouses? 24 hours? no locked room? no magic late in life?).  I think I need to kind of get through all the Not Tied Ups and Flip-flops before I can have a whole sense of how I feel....  IIRC, I did this after HBP, too.


We have all tossed around LOLLIPOPS for so long now -- whether love it, hate it, or feel indifferent towards it -- that I am actually doing better assimilating the Snape storyline than I might have, simply because the possibility of something along those lines has been contemplated many times before.


With Dumbledore, however, I could use some help from others.  

I know that many adult fans wanted a DD who was more puppetmasterish, more directing-weapon!Harryish, more culpable, more flawed, less 'epitome of goodness' than what we'd seen on the surface through 6....  And, well, obviously, we got that.  We got a DD who kept many secrets, who, according to Snape, *used* him (and others), who dabbled in things and espoused things we might never have expected.  

This probably pleases many.

What I'm not sure works for me is how he ended up the man that we saw in books 1-6, and the man we saw at the end when Harry spoke with him after dying/*not* dying/letting Voldy kill him... um, you know where I am in the story.  Was enough shown to us for us to understand how teenaged & early-adult DD *changed*?  He obviously held onto some of his self-concerns (witness his remark about understanding he should not become MfM because he shouldn't grasp too much power).  But he clearly changed from some of those earlier positions re: wizards first and all he shared with Grindelwald and what *mattered* in this life.  

So how did that happen?  Are we to assume that his sister's death was IT? was the turning point? (perhaps as Dobby's death was for Harry in his process?)  Was that *sufficient* for him to begin questioning Grindelwald and all that they, together, had said really mattered and was worth pursuing?

I suppose that's it.  I suppose we're supposed to see that?  But was that enough?  Was that enough to have turned DD from that person he was at 18 or 20 into the man who could speak with apparently deep & true conviction about the treatment of others (centaurs, house elves, muggle-borns, etc.)?   I suppose his having lived through it *does* add a measure of weight to his statements regarding CHOICES, regarding choosing what is right over what is easy, as well as his belief in second chances (having needed a mighty one himself).

Just thinking....

Siriusly Snapey Susan


Susan Albrecht
susiequsie23 at ...

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