- HogPro is back
- Behold a Phoenix takes on a Harry Hater
- “Tea and Suffering” – the Christian meaning of Ron’s tea leaves
- Eroej Kab – “Dumbledore, the Death of Sirius, House Elves“
If you’ve been following the discussion underneath PubCast #25, you’ll be particularly interested in the last link above. Eroej Kab has told me that he will not be returning to HP conversation on any site until after DH is released, because, as it is with me, it’s taking up too much time! But he wanted to gather all his thoughts on Dumbledore and House-elves and put it together in one post. He and I have differing views on Dumbledore as it relates to the house-elves, and as always, I welcome a challenging counterpoint.
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Thanks for the articles Travis. They guy at Behold A Phoenix has some very insightful thoughts. As does Eroej Kab! I juts hope that not too many of us don’t go away before DH comes out. I want to be able to speculate right until that last night of anticipation!
Interesting articles, Travis, thank you for the links.
I don’t believe that Dumbledore has a blind spot concerning the enslavement of House-Elves. I think he sees the injustice in it, but he doesn’t strike me as an activist, he’s choosing a different path. There are several ways to bring about change and I see Dumbledore as a man who lives up to his ideals and treats everybody with kindness and respect, without prejudice.
At some point in PoA Harry is disappointed to learn that Dumbledore couldn’t solve everything and pull some amazing solution out of the air. DD said that he doesn’t have the power to make other men see the truth or overrule the Minister for Magic.
I very much sympathize with Dumbledore’s calm and considerate approach.
Mia, I completely agree with you Re: Dumbledore not having a blind spot.
Discussions about Dumbledore’s blind spots (about the elves, about Snape) remind me of the words of Jessica Rabbit: “I’m not bad…I’m just drawn that way”.
Dumbledore is as JKR has written him. I think it would be useful to ask ourselves: did JKR intend for the issue of the enslavement of the elves to be seen as an injustice which had to be addressed, or did she put it in as “background”, never intending it to become “foreground”?
Looking forward to your PubCast on this, Travis.
Hi everyone,
There’s a claim about a hacker named Gabriel who supposedly hacked into the Bloomsbury computers and has posted a spoiler on thw web. It’s self-admittedly mean spirited – Gabriel’s stated goal is to
keep everyone from reading the book.
I took a look. It names the two characters who will die and says how.
I don’t think so.
Check it out if you wish, but let me be the first to say that it completely misses the spirit of the story.
Reyhan, thanks for bringing this up. I intended to address it. I decided not to look at it. I’m guessing it’s all just false, but with 30 days to go, and so many copies of the text in existence, I’m playing it safe and avoiding all claims to spoilers. I’ll probably discontinue my Google news updates for Harry Potter and only pay attention to HPANA from here on out.