Thoughts
Just wondering... why do stories keep saying Dumbles is one of the greatest wizards in history? Seriously.
Okay, so he defeated Grindelwald. Yay. Good job and all, but any idiot who gets lucky can win at times (as evidenced by those rare times Vanille would land an instant death attack on one of those massive tortoise things).
What else has he done aside from creating the Order of Let's Do Very Little That We Know Of and playing footsie for a while with Flamel re: uses of dragon blood?
Advances in Transfiguration? Updating school curriculum and advances in teaching methods? Promoting and enforcing honor, fairness, truthfulness, and so on in the Wizengamot? Government in general?
Something? Anything? Because being good at ten pin bowling just isn't saying "greatest wizard" to me.
And this is from a generous viewpoint at the moment, not my usual "Dumbledore is a manipulative bastard who can barely, if at all, be trusted" mindset.
Okay, so he defeated Grindelwald. Yay. Good job and all, but any idiot who gets lucky can win at times (as evidenced by those rare times Vanille would land an instant death attack on one of those massive tortoise things).
What else has he done aside from creating the Order of Let's Do Very Little That We Know Of and playing footsie for a while with Flamel re: uses of dragon blood?
Advances in Transfiguration? Updating school curriculum and advances in teaching methods? Promoting and enforcing honor, fairness, truthfulness, and so on in the Wizengamot? Government in general?
Something? Anything? Because being good at ten pin bowling just isn't saying "greatest wizard" to me.
And this is from a generous viewpoint at the moment, not my usual "Dumbledore is a manipulative bastard who can barely, if at all, be trusted" mindset.