OBLIVIATE! Now go and sin no more.
Posted on 07/21/2007 5:18:11 PM PDT by JenB
Or shooting hexes at the kids feet just to watch them dance.
But the spoilers aren't gonna spoint my reading.
(Alright! I peeked!)
But, in the end, he did learn it, and furthermore, learned how to peek out from behind it. Crucial plot points....
As you know I wasn’t particularly enamoured of Dumbledore’s plotting before this book and am even less so now. I don’t think he ever did really understand what he asked other people to sacrifice for him because I don’t think he ever outgrew his boyhood arrogance and feeling he knew better than others. Ariana’s death saved him from being the worst he could be, but he never still never got over that desire for power, for leadership, did he?
I think his attitude was like his father’s (extrapolating) “do what I have decided to do, accept the consequences for myself” without ever thinking about what the consequences meant for other people. Like how his father attacked those Muggle boys in revenge and ewnt to Azkaban, probably proud of himself - and left his family alone, his wife with a daughter she couldn’t manage, his sons without a father... Dumbledore did the same thing, didn’t he? It’s most clear when he asks Snape to kill him. He is obviously only thinking of using his own death to the best he can, maximising the good and avoid torture, and not about the fact that he is asking Snape to murder him.
We'll let that slide- just don't wear them outside. ;-)
I understand that, but still there was some form of conflict
Thank you! I guess I missed that part in my haste to read what happened next.
OBLIVIATE! Now go and sin no more.
He also used the Imperius curse at Gringotts. Using the Cruciatus curse on Professor Carrow wasn’t his first try, either. In OotP he tried it on Bellatrix and it just knocked her across the room.
How do you catch them to put them on?
Ain't he supposed to be (put away)?
OK I'll take them off before I leave the office.
Pippin! How are you? :) Sorry if I ruined that for you. :) The book is wonderful you will enjoy it!
LOL, some of us Freeper Hobbit Hole people did just that a couple years back! Rented a beach house in Florida and hung out for a week, it was awesome.
He'd be like Grandpa Simpson.
"Ehh, why didn't you get something useful, like storm windows, or a nice pipe organ? I'm thirsty. Ew, what smells like mustard? There're sure a lot of ugly people in your neighborhood. Oh! Look at that one. Ow, my glaucoma just got worse. The president is a Demmycrat. Hello? I can't unbuckle my seat belt. Hello?"
I used to use a Comet 260, but there was this ceiling fan, doncha know?
I left too soon...
I was really happy to see Harry do that. I was ticked when he spit in McGonagals face.
How have you been doing?
I was watching an episode of DR WHO this past Friday, the one with David Tennant, Y'all would have liked it, they made a lot of allusiond to HP. :o)
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