IN WHICH DUMBLEDORE IS EVEN FUCKING SHADIER THAN WE IMAGINED
So Dumbledore can cast a spell wherein the location of someone can be hidden within a single living soul so that even Voldemort couldn't find them, Dumbledore can be the secret-keeper for said spell, Voldemort and all his supporters are terrified of Dumbledore, and yet Dumbledore thought it was better to give Harry to anti-wizarding bigots who abused and neglected him for 11 years (and six summers after that) rather than at, I dunno, DUMBLEDORE'S HOUSE WITH THE FIDELIUS CHARM CAST ON IT?
I posit that Dumbledore, knowing Voldemort as well as he did, PURPOSEFULLY put Harry in an abusive home specifically because he knew the "mother's blood" spell would eventually be Voldemort's ultimate downfall. He was using Harry as a tool against Voldemort FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. The interactions between the mother's blood spell and what he predicted Voldemort would do (remember Dumbledore's look "of triumph" mentioned in book 4?) are the wizarding equivalent of advanced astrophysics, and Dumbledore is like Einstein and Steven Hawking combined when it comes to that shit, so you know he had ideas.
Fuck, for all we know, Dumbledore knew Pettigrew was the traitor, and once Dumbledore got Snape's plea, he concocted a plan against Voldemort on the spot to take advantage of this knowledge (probably had the beginnings of a plan starting to form the moment he heard the prophecy), confunded Sirius (or Imperiused him) to get him to think that using Pettigrew instead was a good idea, purposefully throwing Harry's parents into Voldemort's path because he knew Lily well enough to know she would die to protect Harry. Then failed to stand up as a character witness for Sirius because Sirius's truth coming out might lead to a full enough investigation for the confunding/Imperiusing of Sirius to be discovered, and his own involvement exposed, which would leave him unable to act on the rest of his plan, which was to play the trustworthy grandfather role to Harry so he could be sure he could get that poor abused boy to go willingly to his death at the right time.
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I posit that Dumbledore, knowing Voldemort as well as he did, PURPOSEFULLY put Harry in an abusive home specifically because he knew the "mother's blood" spell would eventually be Voldemort's ultimate downfall. He was using Harry as a tool against Voldemort FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. The interactions between the mother's blood spell and what he predicted Voldemort would do (remember Dumbledore's look "of triumph" mentioned in book 4?) are the wizarding equivalent of advanced astrophysics, and Dumbledore is like Einstein and Steven Hawking combined when it comes to that shit, so you know he had ideas.
Fuck, for all we know, Dumbledore knew Pettigrew was the traitor, and once Dumbledore got Snape's plea, he concocted a plan against Voldemort on the spot to take advantage of this knowledge (probably had the beginnings of a plan starting to form the moment he heard the prophecy), confunded Sirius (or Imperiused him) to get him to think that using Pettigrew instead was a good idea, purposefully throwing Harry's parents into Voldemort's path because he knew Lily well enough to know she would die to protect Harry. Then failed to stand up as a character witness for Sirius because Sirius's truth coming out might lead to a full enough investigation for the confunding/Imperiusing of Sirius to be discovered, and his own involvement exposed, which would leave him unable to act on the rest of his plan, which was to play the trustworthy grandfather role to Harry so he could be sure he could get that poor abused boy to go willingly to his death at the right time.
This was cross-posted from http://alex-antonin.dreamwidth.org/232657.html
You can comment either here or there.