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[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

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?

Comments

[sunnyskywalker]

Telling Tom they have rules about good conduct at school is nonsensical when you look at everything they let kids do there.

I wonder if his rant to Snape was a bit of projection? After all, his dabble with the dark side and trusting a dark wizard is what got his sister killed. Wizards rarely seem to move on from anything, so maybe he's still working out his issues there, with Snape as proxy. Ditto Slughorn, because you're right, Dumbledore operates very similarly, right down to having an organization of people he's helped and who now do him favors in return.

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

That...actually makes a sick amount of sense.

*Jots it down*

[sharaz-jek.livejournal.com]

I wonder if his rant to Snape was a bit of projection? After all, his dabble with the dark side and trusting a dark wizard is what got his sister killed. Wizards rarely seem to move on from anything, so maybe he's still working out his issues there, with Snape as proxy.

I read this as projection right from the start. Snape, Slughorn, and Grindelwald really are the only people interested in (or capable of) self-reflection, aren't they?

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

This, just this. Seriously...when your villains come off more honorable and interesting than the "heroes"...it's probably time to go through some revision. :/

Albus + Severus 4Ever

[oneandthetruth.livejournal.com]

I wonder if his rant to Snape was a bit of projection?

That, too. I always suspected Dumbledore may have been attracted to Snape, and that's one reason he treated the younger man so badly. That is, instead of blaming himself for being attracted to smart, daring, "bad boy dark wizards," he blamed Snape for being attractive. And by rejecting and beating down Severus, he was also rejecting and beating down his own lustful feelings.

After all, his dabble with the dark side and trusting a dark wizard is what got his sister killed.

It's actually worse than that. There's no question that Albus himself killed Ariana. I don't remember the exact quotation, but in DH 35 there's some line like this: "Harry didn't want to ask DD who had killed Ariana, and DD didn't want to tell him." There would have been no reason to avoid the subject if somebody else could be blamed for her death.

Re: Albus + Severus 4Ever

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

"That, too. I always suspected Dumbledore may have been attracted to Snape, and that's one reason he treated the younger man so badly. That is, instead of blaming himself for being attracted to smart, daring, "bad boy dark wizards," he blamed Snape for being attractive. And by rejecting and beating down Severus, he was also rejecting and beating down his own lustful feelings."

Holy crap, *this*! :D

*Adds to personal head canon*

Re: Albus + Severus 4Ever

[sunnyskywalker]

It's probably a double whammy - Snape could represent both Grindlewald and young Dumbledore to Dumbledore in different ways. Shift the blame onto the bad boy dark wizards for every inclination (lustful or otherwise) he doesn't like to recognize in himself.

Re: Albus + Severus 4Ever

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

*Jots idea down*