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.
Who gave you the RIGHT?
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.
Ooooohoo if there’s ever a post that fits my aesthetic…
okay but then where does Harry himself fit into this collection? Is he an outcast because he is “the Boy Who Lived”?
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?
I’m here for this Anti-Dumbledore discussion.
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.
rmr in the second harry potter book when jk rowling was like “house elves are wizarding slaves” and we all went “oh shit thats fucked up” and harry had a whole subplot moment where he freed dobby??? and then in the rest of the books she was like “um actually its not bad :) they love being slaves and not being slaves makes them depressed :) this freed elf became an alcoholic over it and everything :) slavery is good here bc this species exists to be slaves :)” and like… hermione was literally THE ONLY being in the entire castle who cared abt how wrong it was that hogwarts was operated by slave labor and everyone else INCLUDING HARRY dismissed her as annoying for it??? like we were all supposed to be cool w the slave thing bc dobby, the important elf to whom we have an emotional connection is free and every other elf likes being a slave
that in the Chinese version of Disney’s Mulan, the fake name she gives is “Ping”, but her family name “Fa” in English is “Hua” in Chinese, therefore her full name is “Hua Ping”, which is literally “Flower Vase”, and that’s why Shang is so bewildered because it’s a silly name.
but OP how could you not tell them the best part
“hua ping”/flower vase is chinese slang for “camp gay”
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Mulan, introducing her soldiersona: Hello yes it is me, a twink
idk if y’all americans and that know this, but in Australia instead of snow at christmas we get these lil shiny bugs everywhere and they’re attracted to the christmas lights and we call them christmas beetles
and despite being australian they don’t bite or anything they just crawl around on your hand and it’s such a good and pure feeling and yeah
Everyone should just say “Fuck Work” one day and just not go
Im actually serious. like, unless you can’t miss a day of work and risk endangering someone’s life, like a paramedic or doctor or something, literally everyone should just choose at least one day and just not go, preferably around Christmas so it fucks them the most. Fuck that Wal-Mart 9-5, fuck that Steak n’ Shake shift, super fuck the police, definitely fuck Amazon, and God Fuck Capitalism. the fuck they’re gonna do about it, fire 1000 employees?
y’all out here reblogging this like it’s a joke but come December if we all banded together and didn’t go to work, aint none of these big companies gonna be able to make quota and what the fuck can they do, fire like 10,000 people nation-wide and hope they can train enough people in on day to tip the scale back? fuck no, they’re gonna have to eat that loss, and even if its only one day, that’s gonna set millions of amazon orders back. its gonna fuck walmart’s whole thing, sam walton can suck a cock. these companies aint got no power without us but yall still think its a joke. and honestly if y’all want a fucking pay raise that bad, put up or go home and show they asses that they aint nothing but a name without bottom-level workers like us for like 3 days and something is gonna have to give
december 20th 2018 is gonna be national fuck work day
and y’all can go if you want but im staying my ass home and playing super smash bros ultimate
Also @ customers make plans for your holiday feasts early on so no one has to work those days.
My american friends are out there making General strike history im in
Make sure to get yr friends & coworkers in on national fuck work day too :)
why DO teenage girls go through a witch/occult phase? I had tarot cards and a spellbook and I knew a group of girls who messed with ouija boards and another who had ghost hunting equipment. “oh yeah Cindy’s just going through that girly phase where she tries to raise the dead.”
theory - we want power and know our culture doesn’t want to give us any?
Addendum: witches are one of the few cultural figures of female empowerment that don’t derive their power from their relationship to a man.
Galaxy brain: all women have suppressed magic inside them waiting to be unleashed
