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'Dumbledore, A Personal Favourite White Boy?'

Aug 27, 2016 15:24

Thought some of you may enjoy the read - I just came across this essay on Dumbledore that pleased me greatly. The facts are nothing new to us, of course, but they're outlined in a lovely cohesive discussion of his many flaws that fans tend to excuse or overlook ( Read more... )

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aikaterini August 29 2016, 15:47:15 UTC

/Instead of teaching him to temper his impulsiveness, Dumbledore teaches him it’s a good thing ( ... )

nx74defiant August 29 2016, 23:12:49 UTC

Yet was anything done about the curse that Voldemort had put on the position?

I don't think DD did bother to do anything. We never got any indentation that the great Dumbles tried and failed to break the curse. Or tried changing the class to get around the cures.

It would have been nice to see something showing Ginny had an input on her children's names. Like James being James Arthur. We do get Lily Luna - but were Ginny and Luna really that close? Why not Lily Molly?

jana_ch August 30 2016, 00:43:45 UTC

If James had been James Arthur (I approve!), would Al Sev have been Sirius Severus? Arrrrg!

I remember an excellent fanfic re-do of DH in which Harry’s second son was named Arthur S. Potter. It was left up to the reader to decide what the middle initial stood for. And yes, he was a Slytherin, but it was not any sort of “issue.”

oryx_leucoryx August 30 2016, 05:32:28 UTC

Bill is William Arthur, and Ginny is Ginevra Molly. Not sure how soon names can be reused as middle names.

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vermouth1991 August 31 2016, 13:30:05 UTC

The indication that Dumbledore is the head of the only magical school in the UK and also a war leader and also dabbles in other areas of politics is terrifying. Drawing from a fandom well that I'm personally familiar to, it's like how in DC Comics Lex Luthor is ostensibly just a billionaire philantrophist, but secretly is behind a whole chunk of organised crime and illegal dealings out there. In the early 2000s "Justice League Unlimited" series, he started running for PotUS, and The Question (crash course: Justice League's resident conspiracy theorist, and arguably a better detective than Batman) went into his penthouse to kill him because he believes that Luthor becoming President would set off a chain reaction that would lead to the Justice League mutinying and destroying the world in war. For spoiler reasons, Luthor is shown to have gained super strength and invulneralbility, and moped the floor with the Question, as he uttered this famous line: "Foolish little man. You think I did all this to become president? Do you have any idea ( ... )

aikaterini August 31 2016, 17:58:19 UTC

/The indication that Dumbledore is the head of the only magical school in the UK and also a war leader and also dabbles in other areas of politics is terrifying ( ... )