Dumbledore plays a deep game. He’s not “the Dumbledore we know and love” in many, many ways, and perhaps that big change is the largest cause of the issues.
First, I know Eliezer’s deliberately keeping Dumbledore mysterious and forcing us to question what we think we know about him and how we think we know it. But I think, in the end, he is the same character with the same core virtues that we originally loved. The difference is that he is now in a world where he could not be content “merely” being Gandalf, because in this new universe, Gandalf would have lost. Dumbledore in the original universe didn’t make the hard, cold decisions this Dumbledore does, not because he was incapable of it, because that universe didn’t require it of him.
This universe does, and because he DOES share the same core virtues it breaks his heart, which is what finally sold me on his character in chapter 62 (and even in chapter 39, when I went back and reread it).
I may turn out to be wrong, but I would be disappointed if that is the case.
Dumbledore plays a deep game. He’s not “the Dumbledore we know and love” in many, many ways, and perhaps that big change is the largest cause of the issues.
First, I know Eliezer’s deliberately keeping Dumbledore mysterious and forcing us to question what we think we know about him and how we think we know it. But I think, in the end, he is the same character with the same core virtues that we originally loved. The difference is that he is now in a world where he could not be content “merely” being Gandalf, because in this new universe, Gandalf would have lost. Dumbledore in the original universe didn’t make the hard, cold decisions this Dumbledore does, not because he was incapable of it, because that universe didn’t require it of him.
This universe does, and because he DOES share the same core virtues it breaks his heart, which is what finally sold me on his character in chapter 62 (and even in chapter 39, when I went back and reread it).
I may turn out to be wrong, but I would be disappointed if that is the case.