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⌈ Secret Post #2418 ⌋

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Comments

[lex_antonia]

I love those two shady-ass motherfuckers, and I wouldn't want them any other way.

I don't think Dumbledore changed all that much, tbh. He essentially raised Harry for the slaughter in the name of the greater good; it was Voldemort being overconfident that saved Harry. And Snape, being a double agent, did whatever he did as a Death Eater in Dumbledore's name just as well as in Voldemort's. I always found that poignant.

Dumbledore is as grey as Snape's night shirt, and really, his backstory has been hinted at from book one. The first time we see him, he decides to place Harry with the Dursleys, like that's his call to make. No one else gets a say. Even his chocolate frog card says he used to be an alchemist, which already suggests he shared the interest in eternal life with Voldemort.

Basically, I love him. But he's entirely ruthless and not the quintessential good guy that people want him to be.

[(Anonymous)]

Basically, I love him. But he's entirely ruthless and not the quintessential good guy that people want him to be.

It took me a while, admittedly, I remember in OoTP really not liking that - but I actually kind of love Dumbledore's character because he's so damn complex. And in a lot of ways he demonstrates just how far a Gryffindor can go the same way Voldemort demonstrates just how far a Slytherin can go. Gryffindors are knights, and if you look back at history, knights did some pretty shitty things because they decided it was for the greater good.

[lex_antonia]

Ooh, I like your point about the Houses. Nice.

I always thought they should've sorted according to weaknesses, not strength.

You're brave? Good, but you're rash and need to learn how to think before you act. Ravenclaw. You're ambitious and somewhat ruthless? Hufflepuff, to learn about the value of kindness. You're smart but don't know how to make yourself heard? Gryffindor. And so on.

[(Anonymous)]

I always thought they should've sorted according to weaknesses, not strength.

I like this. It makes more sense.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think that would work - if everyone that is ambitious and somewhat ruthless ends up in Hufflepuff, the Hufflepuff will end up as the ambitious and ruthless house. It would only work if you did it with a very few students.

[lex_antonia]

Doesn't have to be that way. Ambition doesn't necessarily mean you lack compassion, you could just as well be somewhat of a coward who'd benefit from Gryffindor. I mean, it's not like the houses have a direct opposite; weaknesses may vary.

[fadeinthewash]

But you'd still end up with a pack of unkind kids together and a pack of rash, reckless kids, and so on (whichever weaknesses are being sorted). There's no inherent moderating force that comes from being in a house that shapes behavior. Maybe if they did, like, an exchange student thing in the second year: e.g. half the Slytherins swap out with half the Hufflepuffs or however works out best.

[nyxelestia]

I only started to really like Dumbledore as a character when I started to notice the really shady and somewhat messed-up things he was doing. Purely good characters bore me.

[miarrow]

Yeah, I find Dumbledore more likable, but I think they're both interesting but flawed characters in their own right.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah! Granted, the timeline was wonky for the night of Harry's parent's deaths, but it sounds like a few hours after the deaths, Dumbledore was all like

"Oh, they're dead? Time to move Harry to his Aunt's house and make some blood wards, like, right now. Hagrid...!"

Sirius hadn't even been arrested yet!