Man, it's been too long since I last read the Riddlemaster books. I should check the library...
But back to Rowling - partly, I don't think Dumbledore's plan (apart from having himself killed by Snape) was all that good. How long has he been looking for the Horcruxes? (or even known about them - is getting Harry to get Slughorn's memory in HBP for Harry's purposes or his own?) And then he goes and stuffs up deactivating the first one he finds. And again, except for his death, I never felt like he was really manipulating the layers of real and perceived truth - more just not telling people stuff until the plot made it inevitable.
Mainly, though, it was how Harry just accepted Dumbledore's plan - I mean, yes, be an orchestrator, but part of making the hard decisions is accepting what this will do to people you love, and this includes their opinions of you. In that afterlife sequence Harry's still looking for approval and explanations from someone who has lied to him and set him up for death, and Harry - and Rowling - don't seem to see this as remotely problematic.
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Date: 2007-07-23 11:18 am (UTC)But back to Rowling - partly, I don't think Dumbledore's plan (apart from having himself killed by Snape) was all that good. How long has he been looking for the Horcruxes? (or even known about them - is getting Harry to get Slughorn's memory in HBP for Harry's purposes or his own?) And then he goes and stuffs up deactivating the first one he finds. And again, except for his death, I never felt like he was really manipulating the layers of real and perceived truth - more just not telling people stuff until the plot made it inevitable.
Mainly, though, it was how Harry just accepted Dumbledore's plan - I mean, yes, be an orchestrator, but part of making the hard decisions is accepting what this will do to people you love, and this includes their opinions of you. In that afterlife sequence Harry's still looking for approval and explanations from someone who has lied to him and set him up for death, and Harry - and Rowling - don't seem to see this as remotely problematic.
And hey! Not Neville!!