Dumbledore is a complex and interesting character and I appreciate that the Wise Old Mentor is actually very flawed, but this does mean I sometimes think about the shit he pulled and just get FURIOUS, like of course this asshole thought leaving Harry alone with the Dursleys to maintain the blood ward was the right call, we saw him being perfectly willing to leave every single Hogwarts student from first through fifth year, and those willing to take NEWTs, alone with Severus “I regularly make children cry” Snape for over a decade.
And why? Dumbledore could’ve just testified to keep Snape out of Azkaban after the first VoldieWar and then cut him loose to make his own way as a (very skilled) potioneer, if it was just for his spy service the first time around. But no. He kept him close. He wanted a reliable spy on hand because he was sure Tom Riddle wasn’t really dead, and he was willing to sacrifice the education and mental/emotional wellbeing of uncounted children for it. Look how Snape treated Neville, and Hermione, and how few students made it to the NEWT levels.
What fucking greater good did that serve, Dumbledore? What hypothetical future were you saving by giving that bully authority over children and leaving hundreds of them alone with him? Fuck you.
Tag: harry potter
There was silence in the room, broken only by gentle thuds, as Hermione continued to throw books on to one pile or the other. Ron sat watching her, and Harry looked from one to the other, unable to say anything. The measures they had taken to protect their families made him realise, more than anything else could have done, that they really were going to come with him and that they knew exactly how dangerous that would be. He wanted to tell them what that meant to him, but he simply could not find words important enough.
I still can’t get over the fact that Snape was considered more of a hero then Regulus Black who basically died at the age of 18 to bring down Voldemort single handedly and it actually makes me cry that Reggie is forgotten by a lot of people. Regulus Black didn’t die for you guys to label Snape as the Slytherin hero.
someone added these tags to my post and i figured while we’re at it how about a friendly reminder that snape gave the man that killed the woman he claimed to love the information that convinced him to target her in the first place while he was working for said man of his own accord, and that he admittedly did not care if the woman’s husband and infant son were murdered.
and how about another friendly reminder that this person he was working for completely voluntarily at the time was actively trying to commit genocide against people with the same parentage as the woman he claimed to love.
he’s a complicated character and you can make of him what you will but let’s keep these things in perspective, buddy.
Some people??? Join genocidal terrorist groups and bully school children placed in their care???? To cope???
“Arthur Regulus Potter, you were named after your mother’s father, who took me into his family when he didn’t need to and treated me like one of his own, and after an actual hero who wasn’t an abusive asshole fuck Snape ehhhhh lmao” *high fives Ginny*
K, but, James had a friend facing bigotry and he became an illegal animagus to help make that friend’s life better.
Snape had a friend facing bigotry and he joined up with the bigots.
Like end of contest, bye
no wonder people argue over jily/snily i mean james and snape have so much in common!! both were willing to sacrifice james’s life to save lily!!!!
Okay but what if some of the potions edits in Snape’s old textbook were just things he overheard James say in potions class because “no Padfoot you crush the bean! Cutting it doesn’t do anything! Trust me my dad told me”
Any one of these would have been an improvement
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