Extra Credit #2

In the final book a lot is revealed about all of the characters in the book and we really see a different side in all of them. One character who stood out to me in this final book of the series was Dumbeldore. Even though he is dead and not technically here for this book, I feel like this is when we learn the most about him. A lot of this comes from Rita Skeeter. I really do not like her and I think that it was extremely rude to write a book bashing someone when they have just died, but it really does give us another look at Dumbeldore. Rita does have a lot of the facts messed up and likes to turn simple things into major points of juicy gossip, but she does make us see that there is more to Dumbeldore than we would have ever originally thought. I think that I made the mistake, like Harry does at some points throughout the books, to see Dumbeldore as this source of perfection who can never do any wrong. We see how clever and cunning he is, and how he is literally able to plan out huge scenarios in his head and almost always plan them out correctly. We see him when he is an old man with lots of experience under his belt and we have seen all the good that he is done so it is really easy to forget that he was once a child and a young man and made plenty of mistakes. I think that this shows that he is human. At first I had lost a bit of respect for him when I read about his mother and his sister and the strained relationship he had with his brother, but then I thought about it and realized that stuff really didn't matter that much. If I were only to be judged upon what I had done when I was young, or even right now, then I would probably not be in the best place in peoples hearts and I think that this would apply to most people. What really matters was how Dumbeldore changed and grew throughout his life. He was always a good man but through his experiences and through growing up he turned out to be  great man. Dynamic characters are important parts of all books and I truly believe that Dumbeldore is one of the most dynamic characters ever created.