Do you think if we just stopped believing in him, he'd disappear?
*stops believing, stops believing, stops...*
It's like trying not to think about the pink elephants.
but at their heart, the HP books are kids books
OTOH, Rowling makes a point of making the books darker and more adult as the story progresses. That's exactly my quibble with Dumbledore: While I could accept him in PS and CoS just fine, I think he should have died somewhere between PoA and OotP, because his transition from the Exposition Fairy of children literature to a 3D character has not quite worked for me.
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*stops believing, stops believing, stops...*
It's like trying not to think about the pink elephants.
but at their heart, the HP books are kids books
OTOH, Rowling makes a point of making the books darker and more adult as the story progresses. That's exactly my quibble with Dumbledore: While I could accept him in PS and CoS just fine, I think he should have died somewhere between PoA and OotP, because his transition from the Exposition Fairy of children literature to a 3D character has not quite worked for me.