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I am an twenty one year old named Birdie. I just reblog shit I like lol

[sirfrogsworth]

Monica Lewinsky is funnier than all of the comedians who made shitty jokes about her. 

[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.

[hemopoiesis-deactivated20220627]

[qrgirl-deactivated20220303]

the insult of cars nowadays is they dont even look cool theyre just polluting the earth and dont even look fuckable while doing it. maybe thats not the right word

[animatedtext]

[myownprivatcidaho]

whatever souls are made of, yours and mine are the same (insult)

[keychainjar]

[gettingintoknives]

mirror traps by hera lindsay bird

[lakevida]

have you ever wanted anything so badly

[absoluteconceptofbeauty]

going on a biting spree gonna bite the fuck out of every person i see

[slowspinningredemption]

me reading over old journals: wow those Symptoms™ were so embarrassing lmao glad the Symptoms™ i have now are cooler and sexier

[dimetrodone]

Hot take: on a scale of nerd vs jock, LARPing is a more jockish activity then fantasy football.

[dimetrodone]

LARPing: people going outside and being physically active, requires working as a team with people

Fantasy Football: poindexters on the computer, playing with stats 

[dimetrodone]

[lauralot89]

The Department of Fisheries in Hyderabad, India, is shaped like a fish.

[submalevolentgrace]

finally, some good fucking architecture

[daintydot]

[zemathememequeen]

[30-minute-memes]

flash games actually raised me more than my parents did and im genuinely gonna miss them

[cerastes]

You don’t have to miss them, you literally can keep playing them, they are being archived.

Also Newgrounds has been preparing for this for years now and they made their own free software that can still run Flash games.

[22drunkb]

i don’t even want to read the article, the headline is perfect

[bokchois]

Running out of time.

[gnetophyte]

that “oooo” when someone got In Trouble in elementary school… that was a greek chorus