The Snape factor makes Dumbledore even more wildly irresponsible. I mean, he lived through the MWPP era. Did he learn nothing there? There he had these kids walking around like they ruled the place, and many teachers loved them for it. He saw how much Snape hated James, he saw Snape become a DE and he saw how valuable Snape really was. Now, I'm not blaming James for making Snape a DE in the least but saying you'd think Dumbledore would have the sense to not want to lose any more Snape's this go round. Instead he seems once again happy to pick out a few students he obviously likes--and every kid in the school would know who he favored, particularly after that bait-and-switch first year, and turn a blind eye to any possible problems elsewhere. As long as Harry knows to be loyal to him the war's won.
I do think it's weird when Harry's personal battle is tied to philosophical ideas more than it really can be. It's like the whole idea that Harry objects to Slytherin on purely idelogical terms--um, actually he hates it because it's Voldemort's house, and Malfoy's house and Snape's house...and they hate him and he hates them. So when Dumbledore pats him on the back for making a moral choice in rejecting it it's a little odd, to say the least. Slytherin had absolutely nothing Harry wanted.
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Date: 2004-11-02 03:13 pm (UTC)I do think it's weird when Harry's personal battle is tied to philosophical ideas more than it really can be. It's like the whole idea that Harry objects to Slytherin on purely idelogical terms--um, actually he hates it because it's Voldemort's house, and Malfoy's house and Snape's house...and they hate him and he hates them. So when Dumbledore pats him on the back for making a moral choice in rejecting it it's a little odd, to say the least. Slytherin had absolutely nothing Harry wanted.