Evidently you and the others here didn't follow the discussion on the Leaky Lounge all that long, because as I very clearly explained there, I'm no fan whatsoever of EXPLICIT writing (as I even pointed out in the very post you're quoting above, as well as in subsequent ones), I never asked for there to be EXPLICIT sentences to show Harry's choice, in fact I think explicit writing is the most lazy writing there is. I only questioned whether Harry was merely Dumbledore's puppet, or an individual person with OWN reasoning - independently of what Dumbledore tells him. That's all, I'm not stupid, thank you, I'm merely examining the text very closely and logically (being a philosopher and mathematician, so that's where my approach to texts is coming from, and which I have the right to question). And yes, I can also agree to disagree on a subject, as I said above, which is not condescending, actually, but quite the contrary.
WalnutWandCarrier
PS: I'm not the only one who's questioning Harry's independence, btw, there's also Dan Hemmens and Jim Adam, for example, and both make some well-thought-out points, as well as rubbish ones. You may want to check them out on the net. May expand your minds a bit. |