The Man with Two Faces Fights the Hero with a Thousand

[ponderous77]

Well look at that, with 84 days to go, I have finally finished Sorcerer's Stone. This only puts me two-and-a-half books behind. Does this mean that when the Potter Apocalypse® rolls around and judgment day dawns, I am doomed to be grouped with the throngs who weren't as into Potter as they should have been?  I'd better behave myself from now on, or

Comments

[ohmarianne]

I would say Dumbledore's half-truths are the most excusable here they've ever been. Harry deserves at least one year of cozy, Hogwartsy life before he has to be all thousand-faced, right? Maybe that's why he gets all the special treatment/House Cup foolishness too---Dumbledore wants him to have the whole Normal Boy experience before it's too late. I think it's okay Dumbledore doesn't tell him anything. Your reading from D's point of view, though, is very sweet and insightful.

Good job, twin--you made it through the whole first book! YAY!

[ponderous77]

No, fair enough, it's very excusable to spare an 11-yr-old that kind of monumental angst -- Dumbledore basically excuses it in "The Lost Prophecy," right? I think it's really only at Azkaban that he realizes he's just putting it off for his own benefit, not Harry's.

But I still feel that giving Harry false hope that Voldemort may never return is a just a very irresponsible thing to do. CONSTANT VIGILANCE, Dumbledore!