By the way, what I blamed was not Dumbledore disliking power, but his neurotically refusing office - which is a different thing, a duty rather than a privilege - four times in a row, when he not only was the best qualified candidate, not only had he been formally approached, but knew perfectly well that the country was threatened by an enemy he was incomparably well placed to oppose. To leave this task to lesser men is, to me, to shirk duty, a cowardly and dishonourable thing to do. To do so because you are worried about the purity of your soul is to put your own self-concerns above the lives of thousands of your fellow-citizens. There is nothing admirable about this. And as I said, here I do not admire JKR at all - so your saying that this is consistent with her views makes no difference. I knew it. I disapprove of her views.

BTW, I have set out an imaginative account of my values in this area in this fic: http://www.fictionalley.org/authors/fabio_p_barbieri/TFNOTFOTHOB01.html. I would of course welcome any comment you might want to make.