To: js1138
"Dumbledore, whose father murdered three teenagers for harming his daughter...".
They raped his daughter and drove her insane. It sounds like justice to me.
365 posted on
08/01/2007 12:55:44 PM PDT by
Durus
("Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." JFK)
To: Durus
Vengence, perhaps, but then justifying vengence is not the point of the book.
370 posted on
08/01/2007 12:57:53 PM PDT by
js1138
To: Durus
They raped his daughter and drove her insane. It sounds like justice to me. Well, she never actually specified "rape", but that can pretty well be inferred I think.
I found this to be a very interesting incident in the book. On the one hand, there's not a lot of condemnation for what Dumbledore's father did to those boys. But there's also no hand-wringing over his prison sentence for it.
It seemed to me like Rowling was saying she can understand and sympathize with the father's reaction, but she also agree's that such actions will have consequences.
382 posted on
08/01/2007 1:05:18 PM PDT by
The Blitherer
(What would a Free Man do?)
To: Durus
They raped his daughter and drove her insane. It sounds like justice to me. Hey! That's part of the plot from an old Charles Bronson movie!
394 posted on
08/01/2007 1:09:45 PM PDT by
Ignatz
(NPC's have feelings, too!)
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