Decisions and influences in Harry Potter

[kerravonsen]

This all started because I was pondering Dumbledore, and "What was he thinking?"
I still don't know what he was thinking, but it's been fun making this huge diagram about various people's decisions in HP. I love GraphViz.

http://www.katspace.org/fandom/harry_potter/Decisions/

What do y'all think? I know I haven't covered everything, but hey, it's something.

ETA: I've now split the big diagram into four separate diagrams. Hopefully that makes it easier to follow.

Comments

[innerslytherin]

You're right, and I didn't articulate well what I meant. I think what made me angry was actually that Dumbledore let Harry feel that way, and even encouraged it. And not just Harry, for that matter. I guess that's a very human flaw, that Dumbledore wanted to be admired. Everyone does, I think. But I think that was what made me angriest at Dumbledore - not that he made mistakes, but that he projected that air of not having made mistakes, until he couldn't avoid telling his sordid past.

Of course, I'm also quite a few years removed from having read the last two books, and I never did reread book 7, I disliked it so much. I keep thinking one of these days I'll reread the series. I've been recovering a lot of my original love for the Wizarding world. :)

[kerravonsen]

not that he made mistakes, but that he projected that air of not having made mistakes
I'm not sure that it's solely because he wanted to be admired; I think part of it would be that he felt that as a leader, such an aura was required in order to inspire his followers, to give them confidence.