[ SECRET POST #4789 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4789 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 54 secrets from Secret Submission Post #686.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[ninefox]

YES HE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN

BECAUSE RITA FUCKING SKEETER WROTE AN EXPOSE TRYING TO SMEAR AND EMBARRASS DUMBLERDORE AND 'FORMER SWEETHEARTS WITH WIZARD HITLER' WOULD HAVE BEEN THE JUCIEST SCOOP OF HER LIFE

NOT ONLY DID HARRY READ PARTS OF THAT BOOK

BUT EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE WIZARDING WORLD SHOULD HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT NON-STOP AFTER THE BOOK DROPPED

'HARRY RE-EXAMINING HIS BLIND FAITH IN DUMBLEDORE AND LEARNING SURPRISING THINGS ABOUT HIM' IS ONE OF THE MAJOR THROUGHLINES OF BOOK 7

IT'S ACTUALLY FUCKING IDIOTIC THAT IT ISN'T SPELLED OUT IN LITERAL NEON MAGIC LETTERS

[(Anonymous)]

It honestly does fit one of the major throughlines of the series as a whole, IE, how much of the series is bound up with styles and aesthetics from the first half of the twentieth century, when you actually would only be willing to hint about Dumbledore banging Wizard Hitler even if it was one of the central themes of the book, and a journalist like Rita Skeeter probably would only hint at it

But that's not, like, a defense of Rowling's choice there by any means, because she's not actually a pre-1960s writer, no matter how indebted she is to that period of writers

[(Anonymous)]

(different anon) But Skeeter and her storylines are based very much on 80s and 90s tabloid journalists despite the 20s/30s aesthetics.