One for Sorrow

I totally agree - especially with the Dumbledore part. My disappointment chifly stems from the fact that it's the only Turnaround she's given us. I mean there have been heaps and heaps of instances where Slytherins and Gryffindors do the exact same thing but are judged very differently for it. I started to be worried after HBP, but as everybody kept saying it really was just the first half of the last book, I essentially clung to the hope we were still in the part of a detective novel where all the false clues are displayed. And then - they were supposed to be true! Umbridge disfiguring Harry's hand - bad. Hermione disfiguring Marietta's face - good. Draco's Crucio - bad. Harry's crucio - sign of overboarding chivalry. And so on and so on. What really bothers me is that JKR menat this as a moral tale and thought about it for years. Only to come up with this downright double-moral (is that a word? Not sure). I guess I'll have to work through that feeling of being let down before I can enjoy the good parts of the book that undoubtedly were there...