Session Information
HPEF - Azkatraz 2009
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Dumbledore was Never Free
Track : Sunday, July 19, 2009
Program Code: 290
Date: Sunday, July 19, 2009
Time: 9:00 AM to 9:30 AM  EST
Location: Mission I (60)
SPEAKER :
Lorrie Kim
Description
Themes of imprisonment run through Dumbledore’s life story and through his choices. Using Dumbledore’s own methods of observation and conjecture, we can study these themes to understand the more mysterious aspects of this complex character beneath the brilliant, genial exterior. Why did he choose to put people under virtual house arrest as his primary solution to danger? Why was this usually gentle man harsher with Snape than with any other character in the series? When he kept himself emotionally imprisoned with grief, what other emotions was he trying to contain? If we look into the Pensieve carefully enough, we can even take a guess together at what happened between him and Gellert Grindelwald leading up to the legendary duel of 1945, and at how Dumbledore won the Elder Wand.