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Am I the only one a little bothered by Dumbledore? Not only with the fact he could end up in the Guinness Book Of World Records for "Most Incompetent Headmaster of All Time" (though I'm sure there's worse. :P), but also because...he just bugs me. I know JKR was trying to write him as the "flawed Yoda", so to speak (and to be fair, he's nowhere near Yoda. XD), but it's also how...preachy he gets. Towards Fudge, for example. You know, in Goblet of Fire, with, "You place too much importance on purity of blood, yadda yadda et cetera et cetera" -- which considering how he treated Tom Riddle and the Slytherins is...slightly hypocritical isn't it? Probably bad writing on JKR's part, though. :/

Anyways, sorry 'bout the rambling. Thoughts?

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It's hard to imagine how anyone could have been worse without actively attacking the students. He's incapable of spotting his old friend is actually a psychotic DE in disguise, he hires Lockhart despite the implication that he knew his secret all along (and despite the fact that Lupin would almost certainly have been available and willing), he hires Hagrid, he lets Draco continue his murder schemes even after Katie almost dies, he didn't realise that Myrtle's death could, as far as we know, only have been caused by a basilisk and that oh look, there's a burgeoning sociopath who happens to be a Parselmouth... actually I'm not sure if incompetent is the right word so much as dangerously negligent. The leader of a vigilante antiterrorist force should not be the headmaster of the only school in the country (not that he was a very good leader of a vigilante antiterrorist force either)."

*This*, just this! :D