Dumbledore could try to crush others' ambition because he doesn't want the competition, though. And he'd be clever enough to cloak it as guilt-driven and an attempt to prevent future Dark Lords which had unfortunate side effects even if he didn't actually feel guilty and actually wanted to have a Dark Lord around to look good opposing. I haven't been able to definitively rule out this "remorseless and totally calculating" scenario.
Or he could also both feel guilty and want to crush competition so he'll always be the best (possibly without ever fully admitting the latter to himself). Which impulse would predominate at any given time, I wonder?
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Date: 2021-04-03 08:03 pm (UTC)Or he could also both feel guilty and want to crush competition so he'll always be the best (possibly without ever fully admitting the latter to himself). Which impulse would predominate at any given time, I wonder?