Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Power over Intelligance

In the book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows there are a lot of people in this book who choose power over intelligance because they are power hungry. There are many different types of characters in this book but the main types of one and people who all they want is power and want to be on the top of everyone else. for example like Voldemort and Gindelwald and there are other people in the story who set aside the crave for power and focus on another way to make them selves stronger by using intelligance like Dumbledore.

The people who want power try to reach to the top by using power to gain controll. Like Grindlewald wanted too use the Deathly hallows to make a superior race. he was trying to gain controll of the world by making them scared and using power to gain control. Were as Dumble dore uses intellagance to gain to controll he will think about the right stuff and the wronge and wont be corupted by power.

Dumbledore was a very powerful man and tried to be even powerful by collecting the Deathly hallows. But even in Dumbledore's younger years he wouldnt want to be as ruthless and Grindlewald, all Dumbledore really wanted was the reserection stone so he can say how sorry he was for all of the things he had done. Dumbledore also wanted the Elder wand but new he wasnt strong enough to be the master of death. I think that Dumbledore knew that with all of that power he too will become power hungy, which I think is more noble than being the master of death admiting you cant controll all of that power.

Dumbledore knew that Harry would some day be stong enough to be the master of death so Dumbledore felt that he had to lead Harry into the right paths. in the very beging of the Sorceres Stone, when Harry first meets Draco they get along really well, and this made me think that maybe if Harry had went to the Slytherin house, had everything that ever happened to Harry would have it all changed because of the people he would hang out with? would he feel like he had to be on the dark side like Snape and Draco? Or would he have over came it.

In this story there are just endless amounts of questions that can make really deep thoughts about, these were just some that I thought were important.

4 comments:

  1. Very strong emotion towards your point of view.

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  2. if it wasn't for dumbledore harry would make the same mistakes as he did

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  3. I agree that Dumbledore was power hungry but soon he realised that no one can be a master of death. Also because of that Harry didn't go power hungry. Even thought he was tempted to i guess he found the right way to end it and that was by finishing the job Dumbledore had started, destroying the Horcruxes.

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  4. Hey i will be using this as a mentor

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