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Who’s the Hero? Harry or Dumbledore?

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by revgeorge on November 28, 2009

On her blog Quoth the Maven, Janet Batchler has some great comments regarding who is the hero of Harry Potter: Harry Potter or Dumbledore.  She’s responding to a story here arguing that Dumbledore is the real hero of the HP series not Harry.  Check out both and see what you think.

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Chapter 7: The Will of Albus Dumbledore

by revgeorge on September 10, 2009

dh.c07--will-of-albus-dumbledoreTwo things I like about this chapter: Romance and Politics. :)

I won’t attempt to summarize the whole chapter since there’s so much packed in there. Instead, I’ll have some random thoughts on things that stood out for me.

As the chapter begins, Harry is dreaming of Voldemort searching for Gregorovitch. For HP obsessives, we should remember way back to Goblet of Fire and the passing reference to Gregorovitch as Krum’s wand maker. Did anyone catch this on first reading DH? I don’t think I did. This reference, combined with the actions of Harry’s wand three chapters ago, should get us thinking about wands and wand-lore as something important to which we should pay attention throughout the story. [click to continue…]

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Around the Common Room

by Travis Prinzi on December 7, 2008

  • John Granger in Touchstone – Book Binders: What I Learned About Great Books & Harry Potter.  This is an interesting read, and Mr. Granger has much more about this coming in his book, Harry Potter’s Bookshelf, available for pre-order.
  • You’ll also want to stop over at Hogwarts Professor, where John’s been on a roll with posts the past couple days, including a big one on Dumbledore’s commentary in Beedle, and an argument – and effective one, in my estimation – that “The Fountain of Fair Fortune” is about gay marriage.
  • HP Progs Episode #95 is on Beedle.  I haven’t had a chance to listen yet, because my weekend’s been busy, and I’ve been occupied with this recording of John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Once I’m driving back and forth to work on Tuesday, I’ll finally have a chance to listen.
  • Yesterday, Thinking Matters, an online Christian publication in New Zealand, ran a lengthy article on Potter – Muggle Matters: Is Harry Potter a doorway to the occult? I have to agree with the Hogwarts Professor in saying that it’s nice to see that, on the whole, the “Harry Potter is evil” battle is over.
  • I’m out of town today – traveling to Schenectady for Andrew Peterson’s Behold the Lamb of God concert.  After we get back tomorrow, and in between trying to get all my final papers in, I’ll be writing more about Beedle and fairy tales in the coming few weeks.
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Beedle the Bard: Dumbledore’s Commentary

by Travis Prinzi on December 5, 2008

This quick-fire series of initial thoughts on Beedle would not be complete without a discussion of Dumbledore’s commentary.  The real meat on this will be in John Granger’s promised forthcoming post on Dumbledore’s writing on two levels.  Still, I hope to add a little bit of fuel to the conversation here.

Rowling did get a couple of slams in via Dumbledore, who took shots at Mrs. Bloxam, an advocate for santized fairy tales, and Brutus and Lucius Malfoy, the bigots and racists. [click to continue…]

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Beedle the Bard: “The Tale of the Three Brothers”

by Travis Prinzi 12.04.2008

Here’s the great irony of Dumbledore’s commentary on “The Tale of the Three Brothers” – The man who knows the dangers of temptation to power, particularly the temptation of deathlessness, used his authority as a well-respected, even revered, member of the Wizarding community to convince the Wizarding World that the three Deathly Hallows have no [...]

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Sorcerer’s Stone Week, Day 5: The Dumbledore Denouement

by Travis Prinzi 09.25.2008

One of the key moments of each book is the “Dumbledore Denouement” – the final conversation, after the story’s climax, in which Dumbledore and Harry have a little chat about what happened.  
Here’s a little assignment for Day 5 of Sorcerer’s Stone Week.  With the knowledge of Dumbledore’s backstory in mind, go back and re-read [...]

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Rowling on Dumbledore’s Sexuality (again)

by Travis Prinzi 03.11.2008

There are a lot of comments I want to make, and later tonight I may modify this post to include them, but for now, I figured I’d just report it: Rowling’s talking about Dumbledore’s sexuality again, and this statement is packed with stuff that is bound to generate an opinion or two (or thirty).
“It is [...]

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