Harry Potter and the Runaway Bride

Call it sacrilege if you must...
     I know this is supposed to be a Bible-based blog...

...but February 29th comes around only once every four years, and so I thought I'd deviate from the norm a bit.

Today I am going to show that not only did KatieLyn, the Runaway Bride, miss God, but she also blew off the wisdom of the Wizarding World!  Today I am looking at some of the sage advice given by Albus Dumbledore.

"The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution."
~ Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 17
     KatieLyn did not guard the truth that the Lord had spoken to her. She let it slip from her grasp and she replaced it with her mother's delusional worries.  

 "It is our choices Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." 
~ Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 18
     Sadly, when we saw who KatieLyn truly was, she turned out to be a little girl who needed to please her mother and who was too frightened to give her love to a man.  

"The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business in deed..." 
~ Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 22
     KatieLyn is pretty clueless on this one. There is a small chance that her mom has intercepted the gifts and cards the Joe sent, but probably she is choosing her own blindness. She is like the ostrich that tries to control its future by burying its head in the sand.       

"It is my belief, however, that the truth is generally preferable to lies..."
~ Goblet of Fire, Chapter 37
     Dumbledore said this at the end-of-year feast in the context of announcing the cause of death of Cedric Diggory. The wizarding authorities had decided that it would be best to control the flow of information; Dumbledore disagreed. Gwen, mother of the runaway, behaved like the ministry officials and took control of communications. In the end, the Ministry of Magic's tactic proved to be a disaster.
     It was at that same end-of-year feast that Dumbledore spoke of making a choice between what is right and what is easy. (The film script altered it a bit.) KatieLyn would have been a disappointment to Dumbledore; she chose what was easy.

And there is this one from Ron Weasley:
"You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them."
~ Order of the Phoenix,  Chapter 26
     That is what this blog is for—translating the mad things a runaway bride did so that we can understand them.