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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”.

yayfeminism

Why does being a woman put you at greater risk of having anxiety? Part biology, part what we teach our kids about their place in the world.

redshiftsinger

So we’re teaching girls to be anxious wrecks and boys to disregard the possibility of consequences for incautious behavior. This explains a lot of things. Like… why women are anxious wrecks and men are frequently surprised when it turns out their actions do in fact have consequences. And why men don’t bother asking for help even when they really need it, and thus more frequently die from treatable health conditions (including depression), while women end up getting a broad stereotype of being hypochondriacs (and then having a hard time getting treatment for legitimate health concerns).

cr0wsb4br0s

https://www.ted.com/talks/caroline_paul_to_raise_brave_girls_encourage_adventure/transcript

annaknitsspock

Great example of how feminism serves not just women but people of all genders, including men.

ferfilelek

thisonemoment

He just excepts it right away.

sammles

Happy driving Peter to the Avengers Compound: Shit, looks like we’re going to have to reroute

A concerned Peter: Why?

Happy: There is Road Work Ahead.

Peter:

Happy:

Peter: uH yEaH, i SuRe HoPe It DoEs

capswilson

I assure you, brother. The sun will shine on us again. (please don’t tag as ship)

wintersoldierisbae

sweetamazingme

Funny as fuck

bee-w1tched-deactivated20230915

Hi EvanGELine Lily, I’m Benedict CUCUMBER-BATCH

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IT GETS BETTER

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@daisyannewinchester

Hi, I’m Tom HOLLAND

june-egbert-official

Y’all how did we miss Robert DOWNY Jr.

thecollectibles

The Mermaid of Lily Lake by Andy Ivanov

fyeahspiderman

#a whole ass cutie!

marveledits

a STAN LEE Marvel Opening Sequence Tribute

bulbasaur-propaganda

During a hide and Seek game, Bulbasaur went back to take Togepi to a better hiding spot so it doesn’t get sad losing quickly.

Bulbasaur was a real bro.

therealsinnohdawn

that wasn’t togepi’s hiding spot, togepi just didn’t understand the game and decided to copy pikachu because he is his role model and he looks up to pikachu so much and pikachu treats him like a little baby brother and i’m not crying

trashratmo

Not to be dramatic but I would die for Bulbasaur

justsomeantifas

rich people:

millennials:

freeandresponsible

I am fairly sure there are other explanatory factors for a dropping life expectancy, such as skyrocketing obesity rates and no one exercising enough. There’s not much evidence that increases in the quantity of working hours is linked to a dropping life expectancy.

justsomeantifas

for folks in office jobs:

ya ever hear of researching shit before you embarrass yourself?

pseudomonaslisa

it’s also funny that u would imply that people not getting enough exercise is in no way linked to people working longer hours

tsamthepoet

I hardly see any heroic posts about Muslims on here, so here you go.

cheerfulmetaphysics

I love that it takes the time to specify that his attack of choice was a flying kick

nerdyandyouknowit-deactivated20

The hero the world needs

bathedinflames

I remember this. But I feel we’re missing some key points. When it happened, he was out jogging with his puppy:

He heard screams and sprinted towards them. He jumped a fence, saw a man pinning a woman down and immediately fly-kicked him in the face, knocking him out. He then gave the woman his jacket because her dress was ripped and got her a taxi home. She only managed to get in contact with him and tell the papers cause she later found his driver’s license in the pocket of the jacket.

“If I see a person in danger then I will intervene. I would not want to ignore it and then read the next day that a woman had been raped or murdered.”

And his message to the attacker:

“He is a coward and a man with no morals. I won’t forget his face.”

hejaiaiosn28-deactivated2026012

Glaswegians will always fly kick someone I swear. Good on him.

mylifeisafairy-tale

Something else I love about this is that they’re calling the rapist a “beast” because that is an appropriate word to use for someone who would do something that horrible instead of showing him any form of sympathy or humanizing him

supreme-leader-stoat

urbanfantasyinspiration

What a lad

lunatic121

To the white people who follow me and see me reblogging posts bashing white people but dont get offended or butthurt because you know the shoe don’t fit you and instead just reblog those posts in silence because y'all tired of those white people too

Cheers