Comments | gehayi: Fic: At the Lord's Door (HP, Dumbledore, Assorted Others, PG-13)

gehayi

Fic: At the Lord's Door (HP, Dumbledore, Assorted Others, PG-13)

Apr 30, 2007 15:13

This was supposed to be for mctabby's Cat's Birthday Drabblethon IV, but it got away from me and wasn't nearly done by the time the Drabblethon ended. Here it is at last.

Title: At the Lord's Door
Recipient: erastes
Prompt: Dumbledore finds himself in St Peter's waiting room with Sirius.
Word count: 5,426
Warnings: Not flattering to Canon!Dumbledore. At ALL.
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james potter, regulus, humor, sirius, author: gehayi, stories, dumbledore

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gehayi May 2 2007, 06:05:14 UTC

Reading schoolchildren's minds to find out which, if any of them, is attempting to kill the others strikes me as being both sensible and ethical. At the very least, it might have prevented Myrtle's death. If I were Myrtle's mother, I'd want to know why everything possible hadn't been done to find the Heir BEFORE my daughter died.

(And personally, I think that Lily should have grabbed the baby and Apparated away before Voldemort came upstairs, but that's just me.)

There was something I thought was missing, though, and that was the Repair of the writing; I thought you were heading towards Evildore as the Unified Theory of every Dumbledore inconsistency, but in the end it just seemed to run out of steam and settle for implying that it all happened because he was...stupid.I don't know what Repair of writing is. But the simple truth is, while I've written stories prior to Book 6 in which Dumbledore is effective and manipulative and even evil, that's not believable after HBP. Dumbledore spends the entire book doing dumb things and ( ... )

morriganscrow June 24 2007, 21:58:04 UTC

Not to mention he was both directly, and indirectly, responsible for the corruption, torture, rape, assassination and murder of thousands of innocents, both Magical and Muggle.
Negligent homicide on a massive scale. That deserves some kind of Hell.

gehayi June 25 2007, 03:42:30 UTC

I think that he'd be in the eighth ditch, or bolgia, in the Eighth Circle of Hell. That's reserved for false and fraudulent advisors...people whose words or actions led others to their destruction.

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_thirty2flavors May 2 2007, 02:46:38 UTC

I found my way here thanks to dearest everblue3. Woo.

I seem to be surrounded primarily by other people who have always despised Dumbledore/seen these errors/what have you, so I'll quite readily admit that I've always liked Dumbledore and while some of the illogistics of things have occured to me, it never really occured to me that most of it stemmed from Dumbledore. That said, I won't say you've completely convinced me to despise him, nor am I sure that's what you were going for, but I thought it was worth mentioning that even as someone who has always liked him your fic is still an interesting, captivating read, and it's certainly thought-provoking, as christycorr said. It was also neat having so many characters appear, because so many of them are characters that are never given a chance to interact even in the realms of fanfiction if you follow canon timelines and whatnot ( ... )

gehayi May 2 2007, 07:01:13 UTC

I despise him, but I'm not trying to convince anyone else to do so. I'm just--annoyed with him, I think. And annoyed with the way that he's presented...as a wise, knowledgeable mentor who always acts for the best.

Thank you! I did enjoy bringing in different characters from different times. (Rather like a panfandom RPG.

I'm going to have to add some of my Regulus fics to the Unknowable Room!

kestrelsparhawk May 7 2007, 21:33:18 UTC

Like everyone else, I loved the interaction among what are quite possibly all Dumbledore's victims, and the body of evidence you gather against him. While I have never liked the way he's treated Harry, for reasons you name in the story and some others -- deciding Snape can teach someone he loathes for no good reason occlumency, refusing to talk to Harry all through 5th year, the arrogance which forces a youth who's been abused his whole life to struggle for approval which has been withdrawn the first time he starts not doing what Dumbledore says. But you added quite a few other reasons I hadn't thought of -- and it was funny and satisfying as well. Thank you for the story.

gehayi May 9 2007, 16:07:50 UTC

Thank you. I'm delighted that you liked it; DD's arrogance has annoyed me for years.

I've never cared for how he treated Harry, either. The Occlumency business with Snape irritated me; why didn't Dumbledore join in? He's a Legilimens, supposedly; wouldn't he know something about mental magic? I also noticed in HBP that, despite pledging to treat Harry like an adult and answer his questions, Dumbledore always danced around answering questions, his favourite words were "I believe/I think/I suspect/others thought" and he got very shirty whenever Harry didn't completely accept The Gospel According To Dumbledore.

Heaven? Oh my lurkerm1e May 8 2007, 14:15:32 UTC

Yup. Evil Dumbles goes to his reward and lands up in hell. Mind, I think James and Sirus got off lightly for their mistreatment of Snape.

Can I friend you? Please, please.

I rarely update my lj due to health and 3 jobs, but I love to read good Harry Potter fic.

lurkerm1e

Re: Heaven? Oh my gehayi May 9 2007, 16:28:14 UTC

I'd like to think that James reformed a bit (after all, he saved Snape's life, that's got to earn him some points). Sirius, alas, was still arguing with and taunting Snape through OotP. I'm sure that Snape is going to have quite a few well-thought-out barbed comments about that when he gets up there.

And sure, you can friend me. I should warn you, though, that I'm not doing as much fanfic as I once was.

Thank you so much for this! nico1908 May 9 2007, 18:00:09 UTC

As much as I love the Harry Potter books, they have bugged me for a long time; I just could never really say what exactly the issues were - and you nailed all of them.

I especially loved the idea that Dumbledore was responsible for Tom Riddle becoming Voldemort. So, so true!

Re: Thank you so much for this! gehayi May 10 2007, 16:44:09 UTC

He really was, wasn't he? Isn't it amazing that he managed to sell people on the idea that he was wise and brilliant for so many years?

And thank you!

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king nico1908 May 14 2007, 01:34:36 UTC

Isn't it amazing that he managed to sell people on the idea that he was wise and brilliant for so many years?

Maybe he was wise and brilliant compared to the rest of the Wizarding world. Reading the books, I can't help thinking that this is a very naive society. Otherwise somebody would have long come up with the idea to buy Harry a gun!