You're making me think about the significance of "Dumbledore would have been happier than anyone..."
I definitely think of Dumbledore this way: throughout the books, he's basically the author's conduit for her life philosophy on the importance of love, and as a character, I think he's got very specific reasons for that – he learned the very, very hard way both the importance and the pitfalls of love, and he seems to have renounced any chance of romantic love for himself, in favor of helping others find it...
As for JS&MN (can we abbreviate it that way??) I agree, I enjoyed reading it, but I don't think there's a lot that will stick with me closely. It was intellectually engaging all the way through, but I found it didn't really become emotionally engaging until the very last pages, and that's a bit late!
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Date: 2015-01-29 11:45 pm (UTC)I definitely think of Dumbledore this way: throughout the books, he's basically the author's conduit for her life philosophy on the importance of love, and as a character, I think he's got very specific reasons for that – he learned the very, very hard way both the importance and the pitfalls of love, and he seems to have renounced any chance of romantic love for himself, in favor of helping others find it...
As for JS&MN (can we abbreviate it that way??) I agree, I enjoyed reading it, but I don't think there's a lot that will stick with me closely. It was intellectually engaging all the way through, but I found it didn't really become emotionally engaging until the very last pages, and that's a bit late!