Whups... will continue on here... (lj keeps hating on me)
I was converted into the 'evil/bumbling Dumbledore' fan club after HBP, calling him 'patronising' and 'evasive'.
Me too. I thought exactly those things, and just plain illogic for DD not to tell Harry anything, not to mention extremely irresponsible with children (the whole "good job, idiot" thing). But, now that we know he was once a young boy who made many mistakes, who walked the grey line, who was tempted by power and is fallible, I like DD much more. That's a feat in this one last book. Of course, the whole DD/Grindelwald thing is so Prof X/Magneto. :)
'he who possesses all three will master death' just didn't follow, and was never clearly defined.
Yes. Besides killing Voldemort with the wonder-wand, what exactly was the effect of all three objects being in the possession of a single person?
I wish JKR had introduced the idea of Hallows before, even just a mention of the fable. Then it wouldn't seem so much as something she just pulled out of a hat (JKR was all like "La, nobody's figured out the ending", when honestly, how is one to make up Hallows? Everybody predicted that Harry might die and come back a la Jesus/Gandalf, that the Horcruxes would be hunted and that Snape was good.
And I hated how Dumbledore gave the Trio the oh-so-presciently-convenient gifts so they could work it all out. An artificially contrived plot, is my gut feeling.
True, but then, there is always this sort of mystery that would be much more easily solved if people'd just talk to one another, but JKR has surely done this before (the Triwizard Cup when Crouch!Moody could have easily portkeyed Harry's toothbrush; the teacher's defences in PS which were catered specifically to the talents of Harry&friends; refusing to tell Harry about his psychic link with Voldemort in OotP, which would ease his mind about why he can't know the plans and why he dreams what he does).
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I was converted into the 'evil/bumbling Dumbledore' fan club after HBP, calling him 'patronising' and 'evasive'.
Me too. I thought exactly those things, and just plain illogic for DD not to tell Harry anything, not to mention extremely irresponsible with children (the whole "good job, idiot" thing). But, now that we know he was once a young boy who made many mistakes, who walked the grey line, who was tempted by power and is fallible, I like DD much more. That's a feat in this one last book. Of course, the whole DD/Grindelwald thing is so Prof X/Magneto. :)
'he who possesses all three will master death' just didn't follow, and was never clearly defined.
Yes. Besides killing Voldemort with the wonder-wand, what exactly was the effect of all three objects being in the possession of a single person?
I wish JKR had introduced the idea of Hallows before, even just a mention of the fable. Then it wouldn't seem so much as something she just pulled out of a hat (JKR was all like "La, nobody's figured out the ending", when honestly, how is one to make up Hallows? Everybody predicted that Harry might die and come back a la Jesus/Gandalf, that the Horcruxes would be hunted and that Snape was good.
And I hated how Dumbledore gave the Trio the oh-so-presciently-convenient gifts so they could work it all out. An artificially contrived plot, is my gut feeling.
True, but then, there is always this sort of mystery that would be much more easily solved if people'd just talk to one another, but JKR has surely done this before (the Triwizard Cup when Crouch!Moody could have easily portkeyed Harry's toothbrush; the teacher's defences in PS which were catered specifically to the talents of Harry&friends; refusing to tell Harry about his psychic link with Voldemort in OotP, which would ease his mind about why he can't know the plans and why he dreams what he does).