loquaciousliterature:“Harry, I owe you an explanation,” said Dumbledore. “An exp

loquaciousliterature: “Harry, I owe you an explanation,” said Dumbledore. “An explanation of an old man’s mistakes. For I see now that what I have done, and not done, with regard to you, bears all the hallmarks of the failings of age. Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young … and I seem to have forgotten lately… .”  Part 2 / 2  More HP Comics  //   Patreon And this? Dumbledore admitting fault? I was young enough while reading these books that I was under the same assumption that most of the characters in the books were—that Dumbledore was near infallible. And suddenly, he wasn’t.And I was so, so angry. In my eyes, he became a man with far too much power and importance, whose own sense of said power/importance lead to these kinds of massive errors—the fact that he got the results he wanted in the end doesn’t excuse the ways he got there. The people who suffered (and died, in this case) due to his rarely, if ever, consulting anyone else about his choices—choices that affected so many people, but especially Harry.I know there is a lot of debate about whether or not Dumbledore was highly manipulative or simply made mistakes, as we humans do. I personally believe it lies somewhere in the middle—and that he often forgot to take into account the cost of his decisions.Apparently, I still have a rant stored up about this? …Leaving Harry with the Dursleys was a big one for me. The blood magic did not mean that Harry should’ve been left largely alone and abused the first ten years of his life. How the hell could Dumbledore excuse leaving only an elderly woman with no magic keeping an eye on things? A woman who only saw Harry every once in a while? Any number of subtle wizards could’ve been put in charge of watching Harry, maybe even rotating so no suspicion falls on them or the neighbourhood of Privet Drive. McGonagall is literally a cat animagus. Tonks can change her features at will. Holy shit, dude. They would’ve kept the secret of where he lived, of course they would. (There is a part of me that truly considered if Dumbledore didn’t want Harry humbled because he would end up being famous in the wizarding world. That the abuse—which he claimed not to know the extent of—would give him either a quiet, malleable kid or a kid who learned young to fend for himself and rarely trust adults to handle anything. Hence his going after Sirius with very little information, you utter dunce, how could you not see that coming after four years of this kid doing things on his own?! After spending his fifth year frothing at the mouth to know what the hell is going on and how he can help in the coming war?!)How could Dumbledore not check in on Remus, an unemployed, highly discriminated against werewolf who lost everything? Maybe even have Remus get to know Harry in his youth even just once, or even include him in the roster of folks keeping an eye on Harry? How the hell did Sirius end up in Azkaban without a trial, Dumbledore, but you gave Severus Snape the benefit of the doubt?!*sigh* I guess I still have a lot of feelings about this, even after so many years. Maybe it’s just the older I get, the more defensive I become on these young folks’ behalf. Dumbledore, you may have been a magical, sparkly-eyed cool wizard, and I cried when you died, but damn. You screwed up royally all too often, in my humble opinion. -- source link

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