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[jackthorneisacrackhead]

happy first preview to CC SF! everybody in the bay area better worship lauren ashley zakrin bc i unfortunately cannot

[lumoshyperion]

“And there it is…” “Hogwarts.”

[itsthatunique]

“Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.” -Happy September 1st.

[lumoshyperion]

[lbibliophile]

Just like Slughorn, Albus Dumbledore collects people. Only, instead of focusing on those with influence, he looks to the outcasts.

The expelled half-giant. The young werewolf. The repentant Death Eater.

He protects them and gives them a second chance. All he asks in return is their loyalty.

And, if on occasion he requests that they undertake a certain task, invoking their debt of gratitude - well, that is no more than he is owed.

He once thought to add a certain disowned Black to his collection, but quickly realised his mistake.

Sirius is not an outcast, but a rebel. He knowingly chose his path, and chooses what price he is willing to pay for it. He refuses to be used.

So Albus Dumbledore abandons him.

[wizardtowizard-blog]

Who gave you the RIGHT?

[bonnini]

Dumbledore knows Sirius’s loyalty lies with Harry instead of him, and he has no use for someone who is not willing to follow his orders without question. 

[marauders4evr]

Ooooohoo if there’s ever a post that fits my aesthetic…

[not-a-bit-good]

okay but then where does Harry himself fit into this collection? Is he an outcast because he is “the Boy Who Lived”?

[marauders4evr]

Nooonono, my friend, that’s what makes this post so beautiful. Because it fits the meta I’ve been trying to get people to accept for years. 

Harry was an outcast due to a childhood filled with abuse and neglect. 

Vernon made him an outcast by dismissing his claims of magic, berating him, locking him in a CLOSET and putting bars on his window, and let’s face it, even though her editor made her cut it out, Jo intended for there to be physical abuse. 

Petunia made him an outcast by enabling and contributing to this abuse, as well as making Harry do dozens of chores while doting on Dudley. 

Dudley made him an outcast by bullying him and threatening any students at school who wanted to be his friends. 

And the rest of the wizarding world made him an outcast when they bullied him for being an outsider.

Harry James Potter became an outcast the moment he was placed with The Dursleys.

And who put him there in the first place?

[theotheryongbok]

[my-sun-is-gone-deactivated20180]

I’m here for this Anti-Dumbledore discussion.

[gehayi]

This makes even more sense when you consider why Dumbledore deliberately made Harry an outcast.

Think about it What would Harry have been like if he had grown up in the wizarding world? Or, to put it another way, what would Harry have been like if he had grown up in a world where magic was the norm?

He would have taken magic for granted. He would have been less likely (especially as he got older) to view Dumbledore as a wise mentor and more likely to see him as flawed and capable of bad decisions. He would have seen both the world and Dumbledore as ordinary, with their good points and bad points.

But Dumbledore didn’t need a well-adjusted boy who took magic and the magical world for granted. He needed a child who would love the magical world unstintingly, even irrationally, because it was a haven from neglect and abuse. Even more, he needed a child who feared this world becoming evil and who therefore would not question someone that he saw as the ultimate authority, especially if he believed that obeying that authority would keep the world safe.

Even if obedience meant his own death.

Dumbledore wanted a martyr who would die for the wizarding world, because he believed that Voldemort could not die until Harry did. Which was why he left Harry with the Dursleys and let them neglect and emotionally abuse him for the next ten years.

To get a martyr, he first had to create a victim.

[frostyemma]

well… well, shit

[a-fangirl-summary]

what

[mintedwitcher]

Oh shit. Its been updated.

[garrettauthor]

…I’ve been in the “Dumbledore was on the darker side of morally grey” camp for years but this…this. Holy shit. Oh no.

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

See, JK’s whole problem (besides, y'know, the whole racism thing – though this general thoughtlessness certainly contributes to that as well) is that she writes and plots entirely according to creating challenges, hardships, and rewards for Harry Potter specifically, without any consideration for the bigger picture or how this would feel for anyone else. The Dursleys are a Wicked Stepfamily just so Harry can start out in the negatives. One hundred percent of all Slytherins are racist, classist jerks who will refuse to fight against Voldemort to the very last kid, just so Harry can have an entire category as his enemy, even though they started out as eleven-year-olds and literally anyone who enters Hogwarts can be in any of the four houses. The last chapter of Philosopher’s Stone is “hey, sudden swerve, Harry gets the house cup instead of those Slytherin jerks!” without considering what this would actually look like, how this would feel, to an eleven-year-old Slytherin who’s never done anything wrong and just happens to fall into that particular one quarter of the student body.

And when you actually connect the dots, Albus Dumbledore is a total supervillain who uses and manipulates everyone around him, sends an infant to an abusive home, and lets a beloved member of the extended Potter family go to Azkaban because he can’t be exploited effectively. And this was honestly unintentional on Rowling’s part, who to this day maintains that Dumbledore was a kind, wise mentor and one of the greatest forces of good in the setting.

[prof-grace-aspen]

Minor fact that everyone forgets:

Dumbledore may very well have liked the fact that letting Harry live with the Dursleys would deepen his “outsider-ness”, but he didn’t do it JUST to make Harry an outsider.

He did it to protect Harry.

Harry had to live in a home that shared Lily’s blood - via her sister, Petunia. The protection of Lily’s blood in Petunia, in Harry himself, is literally the lynch-pin of the entire story, and is the whole reason Harry doesn’t die in the end - another thing Dumbledore planned for.

Now. Here’s the fishy part.

Harry has Lily’s blood IN him and it’s made very clear throughout the stories that Harry’s skin and blood ALONE provides him protection from Voldemort until the events of book 4, so presumably Dumbledore could’ve enhanced the charm of Lily’s sacrifice anywhere HARRY himself went; my belief is he CHOSE to place the charm on Petunia specifically so he could keep Harry at her house, for all of the reasons listed above.

Anyway, with that out of the way, I love the rest of this analysis, and it reminded me I have an analysis on Houses to post, so I’m gonna go do that now.

[its-l-i-s-deactivated20211209]

I love this trend,  but I have to add an information to  dizzyhmuffin ‘s section regarding Dumbledore’s innate moral superiority. 

You see, in the books themselves various characters confront Dumbledore in regards to his carelessness and lack of empathy towards the people he uses. In the very beginning prof. Mcgonagal tries to dissuade Dumbledore from leaving Harry wit the Dursleys because she knows he will be mistreated and questions his decisions, yet Dumbledore dismisses this and tells her is for the “greater good”. 

Then towards the end Snape confronts Dumbledore about Harry’s role in defeating the dark lord and he realises the purpose and training of the young wizard was meant so he would sacrifice himself to kill the dark lord,naturally he gets upset and accuses Dumbledore of prepping a “pig to the slaughter” (quote from book) and the director admits its true, again for the “greater good”. 

I know there are far more examples of this throughout the series with other characters, but this is just to demonstrate how even according to the author herself she intended Dumbledore to be this morally grey person who uses people for his convenience. So, part of what happens in the book is for plot reasons and the other part is actually meant to be that way, for the purpose of breaking down the idea of “infallibility”.

[jackthorneisacrackhead]

every touch is CC is so tender and intense... literally invented emotional intimacy

[jackthorneisacrackhead]

i got nick podany’s signature at stagedoor and had a conversation with him... raised MILLIONS for my rights

[jackthorneisacrackhead]

yes i just saw CC yes i’m crying

[jackthorneisacrackhead]

CC SF CAST ANNOUNCED HOLY SHIT LAUREN ZAKRIN PLAYING POLLY CHAPMAN MY RIGHTSSSSSSSS

[jackthorneisacrackhead]

HARRY POTTER.........,,,,,,,, yes i just saw part 1 and i’m freaking my ass

[selinas-deactivated20251210]

HAPPEE BIRTHDAE, HARRY!

[orange8886]

Albus is such a good friend to Scorpius and at the same time can be such a little shit who can bait Harry savegly in 0.2 sec I bet Draco absolutely adores him despite getting his son in that time-travel mess

[jackthorneisacrackhead]

i see harry potter in less than a week. i see harry potter in less than a week. i see harry potter in less than a week. i see harry potter in less tha

[shock]

imagine getting banned from social media for saying what snape did to dumbledore

[tuesdaey]

what did he do to dumbeldore

[shock]

he fucked that old man

[violetclowns]

@kingcl0ut

[upthehillart]

The day Draco was saved

[carrot-gallery]

friendly aggressive reminder that the “mmm whatcha say” chorus was written by imogen heap for a song of her own that came out in 2005, and jason derulo both named his own song after the chorus he sampled from her and improperly credited her in 2009.

mmm whatcha say was written by a female artist and taken by jason derulo and now he gets credit for it. pls reblog bc not enough people know this. the original song is called hide and seek

[ariasune]

it is also a singularly beautiful song, head’s up

[zubious]

Worth mentioning, “Hide and Seek” is an abstract story of a girl reflecting on her parent’s divorce and how it changed her life, while “Whatcha Say” is about a guy who cheated on his girlfriend and is trying to convince her to stay with him anyway.

[ssjbears]

here’s a link to the song/video

[jackthorneisacrackhead]

the sheer bullshit some of you freaks are spewing all over the scorbus AO3 tag is vile get a job you losers