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FruitConflate In reply to readyplayerzero [2015-08-13 00:19:40 +0000 UTC]

Well in my opinion his life was pretty sad..  
Falling in love with only one man in his lifetime and it was a dark lord for instance. 

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readyplayerzero In reply to FruitConflate [2015-08-13 15:55:14 +0000 UTC]

Oh, I totally agree that Dumbledore was a sad man, and he was a very well-designed character. That doesn't mean I like him, though. I disagree with a lot of his decisions, like his paranoid secrecy, how he was still hungry for more power to the point of trying on the ring, leaving Harry AGAINST MINERVA'S ADVICE WITH A FAMILY THAT ABUSED HIM FOR YEARS... I mean, starving a kid by letting him only eat carrot sticks for a summer is straight-up abuse, not to mention all of the emotional trauma they laid on him. Harry would've been safer at Hogwarts or with Minerva or hell, Hagrid, than he was with the Dursleys. =\ And then Dumbledore's BS about pushing Harry away when he knew he was going to have to die so he wouldn't be too attached... WTF MAN, that's not what you do to a kid who's going through so much shit!

So. Yeah. I feel sorry for Dumbledore and think he's a great character, but I still dislike him. Like I think Sirius is a very interesting, well-made character, and I still hate him. XD

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FruitConflate In reply to readyplayerzero [2015-08-14 00:44:30 +0000 UTC]

Haha true. Then again Dumbledore was never one to think about a thing like child abuse. 

 For instance, When he went to visit Tom Riddle at the orphanage to tell him he's a wizard,
shouldn't he have removed him from the abusive MUGGLE orphanage to, you know, prevent muggles to find out about magic?
Aren't there wizard therapists? Wouldn't there have been red flags popping up when you hear a child say, 
 "...I can make bad things happen to people who are mean to me. I can make them hurt if I want to..."
Isn't there an orphanage for magical children?

  I'm just saying.. obviously that child was suffering from some sort of trauma..
 possibly magical trauma that could have been sorted out if Dumbledore would have given the child the proper care..
 'keeping an eye on him' entails more than just treating him like he's a 'bad kid.'
Not to mention the fact that Riddle suffered from a magically induced personality disorder stemmed from a love potion.

But that's just me. 

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readyplayerzero In reply to FruitConflate [2015-08-14 23:19:41 +0000 UTC]

YUP, I had issues with Dumbledore's interactions with early Tom, too. xD And hell, his passivity in general with the sort of things he allowed... like letting Harry, as a very small boy, walk into danger on his own or with two other very small children, every damn year. Like allowing Hagrid to bring in some very dangerous creatures (BLAST-ENDED SKREWTS, WTF) to deal with untrained children, like, what the fuck, some of those are creatures that should only be handled by EXPERTS. And even then, warily! Not at a school full of children! Some of the stuff he just let happen, sigh...........

I wondered about an orphanage for magical children, too. You'd think... given that Tom's dad walked out so he was with his witch mum in the end, it'd make more sense for him to go to a wizarding orphanage rather than a Muggle one. Sigh.

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FruitConflate In reply to readyplayerzero [2015-08-17 06:42:49 +0000 UTC]

Even after all this. I still like Dumbledore XD even though he makes very poor decisions.

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readyplayerzero In reply to FruitConflate [2015-08-17 15:22:09 +0000 UTC]

Haha, that's fair! Either way, he looks adorable here!

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FruitConflate In reply to readyplayerzero [2015-08-18 00:21:42 +0000 UTC]

<3

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