But the weirdest thing here to me is in the second paragraph, where Dumbledore is apparently an "innately good man" who only flirted with essentially *being a Nazi* because he became a "fool for love." This is bizarre to me because frankly, I don't have any trouble trying to figure out why Dumbledore would have flirted with taking over Muggles. This is a guy who's constantly manipulating everyone, thinks he's smarter than everyone else, treats them as pawns that are morally inferior to himself...why on earth would it be hard to imagine him deciding to dominate Muggles "for the greater good?" Of course he would think the answer was having the right people in charge.
I don't know how she does it, I really don't. Dumbledore's past, like so many things in her books has the potential to be really *brilliant*, if only she would explore it for what it is, rather than trying to fit it into the warped worldview of her books, and she completely screws it up. I can't even count how often she's dropped the ball on something that could be great and made it into something terrible. I think all the wasted potential in her writing frustrates me even more than the gawdawful morality, and that's saying something.
As for her stupid little speech on homophobes being afraid of love, I don't know where to start. Does she have any idea how downright offensive it is to make ridiculous statements like that, with no actual knowledge to back her up? Sorry JKR, I know you like to think you're open-minded and all, but you're actually coming off pretty heterosexist, at the very least. I suspect she doesn't even realize that homophobia comes in more subtle forms than gay-bashing and hate-speech.
I had more, but it's completely gone out of my head to be replaced with frustration and rage that Rowling just won't *shut up, already*.
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Date: 2008-03-10 12:11 pm (UTC)I don't know how she does it, I really don't. Dumbledore's past, like so many things in her books has the potential to be really *brilliant*, if only she would explore it for what it is, rather than trying to fit it into the warped worldview of her books, and she completely screws it up. I can't even count how often she's dropped the ball on something that could be great and made it into something terrible. I think all the wasted potential in her writing frustrates me even more than the gawdawful morality, and that's saying something.
As for her stupid little speech on homophobes being afraid of love, I don't know where to start. Does she have any idea how downright offensive it is to make ridiculous statements like that, with no actual knowledge to back her up? Sorry JKR, I know you like to think you're open-minded and all, but you're actually coming off pretty heterosexist, at the very least. I suspect she doesn't even realize that homophobia comes in more subtle forms than gay-bashing and hate-speech.
I had more, but it's completely gone out of my head to be replaced with frustration and rage that Rowling just won't *shut up, already*.