By request here is my examination of Albus Dumbledore and some of his actions and possible motivations thereof.

This essay is quite long so I have broken it up into multiple parts so please bear with me. Also, these are just my interpretations of events as portrayed in the books. They are just my opinions, I respect the fact that many absolutely ( Read more... )

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The interesting thing about DH was how it broke my heart in a million wonderful ways, while failing to break it where I would have suspected it to be the whole point of the story to break it, in order to immerse me in the book's main storylines of tragedy. Such as the Dobby funeral and the Harry suicide... The former of which didn't move me one ( Read more... )

We're reminded quite a few times in DH that Dumbledore had James' Cloak of Invisibility on the night that Lily and James died. We never quite know why he had it. The closest thing to an official answer we get, I suppose, is Afterlife!Dumbledore telling Harry that his "guess" has been right, that the Order Leader had "asked [James] to borrow it, to ( Read more... )

 My mind has been focusing lately on the things I disliked about DH (and man oh man were there many) so I thought I'd shift gears for a bit and reflect on what I liked about the conclusion to the series.

( A longwinded discussion of Harry, Voldemort, Dumbledore, Snape, and their different patterns of love follows the LJ-cut. Nothing too innovative as interpretation goes, it's all pretty obvious stuff. I just wanted to gush for a while to remind myself why I still adore HP. )

Cross-posted from my own journal.

I've been mulling HP7 over some more, specifically about remorse. I told gina_r_snape I'd like to do an essay on the subject.

Before I could get started, however, I ran across this essay, about Snape's story arc in book 7. I really urge you to read it, it's excellent. And I'm going to riff on some of what she was saying ( Read more... )

Here is long-ish essay about Snape and Dumbledore and whether they truly belong to the houses they were Sorted into. It's DH-based, and full of spoilers. Tell me what you think!

Dumbledore, Great Man with a
               Blind Spot

With DH Update
and the House Elf Consequence
at the end (Spoiler Alert!)

Dumbledore was the greatest wizard of his age.
Some say he was omniscient.

But he had a bind spot.  
A blind spot that may have lead to the death of Sirius.

Dumbledore, Great Man with a Blind Spot

with DH update at the end

“Great ( Read more... )

This isn't really an essay, but I thought I'd share two mini-theories that occured to me recently, and that I haven't seen anyone else mention explicity (maybe because they're so obvious) ...

Mini-theory #1:

Many readers and theorists have wondered why it's not more generally acknowledged that the barkeeper at the Hog's Head is Aberforth, Albus ( Read more... )

Why fudge acted as he did in HP-OotP, and Dumbledore's role in it.