Dumbledore's Boggart
What is Dumbledore’s Boggart?
In a July 2006 Leaky Cauldron/Mugglenet interview, Rowling suggested we’d be able to develop theories about Dumbledore’s boggart from reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
A boggart takes the form of what a person fears most, and I believe HBP reveals that Dumbledore’s greatest fear is harm coming to ( Read more... )
This is a fascinating idea: that Dumbledore was forced to relive the tortured childrens' suffering. I think it's fairly obvious from the text that Dumbledore's greatest fear is leaving children unprotected or somehow being responsible for their harm. However, I'd never tied this in with Amy Benson or Dennis Bishop, so thanks for the material to ponder!
In one place, Dumbledore was even described as drinking “like a child dying of thirst,” and that is a curious thing for Rowling to have written.
I don't know about you, but JKR drives me CRAZY with these odd phrasings. But that's what makes her books so interesting, and that's why they're fun to read over and over again. I'd never thought about this particular analogy, though, and you've got a point! It's curious, indeed.
Moreover, he always leaves enough evidence to establish what he did in those places.
It fits the diary pattern in that he couldn’t resist leaving evidence of evil he was proud of committing and had managed to cover up.
Ahhh! I wish I could put into words just how much I love JKR's Riddle. He really is the ultimate villain, isn't he? So classically sociopathic, yet with such an intriguing spin. I'm absolutely itching to see how this classic urge to "brag" on Voldemort's part is going to fuel the events of Book 7.
Your Slytherin Locket-Parseltongue logic is shaky, but we're all dealing with the unknown in that arena. We have solid evidence about the diary and the ring, but the locket is pure speculation at this point (and it's maddening, isn't it? GRR!) Nice tie-in, though.
I thoroughly enjoyed this essay. Thanks for putting the time and effort into writing and posting it!
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