Broken Dumbledore
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:date: 2022-07-30T11:52:30
:category: literature
:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment
 
(my comments on “`Anger and Albus Dumbledore`_” by u/HorseLaw14)

I think he doesn’t understand emotions at all. Yes, I will say,
he knows nothing about love. And, no, I don’t care whether he is
gay or straight, there is absolutely no evidence anywhere for
Dumbledore/Minerva (or Dumbledore/Snape, if you wish) ships
anywhere close to the neighbourhood of the canon.

As a married man for more than a quarter of a century, I know
that love is much more than sex, and we have no evidence that
Dumbledore truly loved anybody after the age of fifteen. And
without regard to whether they loved each other (we don’t know
it, really) or whether they did the deed, they certainly had no
time for love to develop into something real. And, as I said,
love is much more than that, when thinking about it love is
sharing of life most of all. I don’t know if I have ever read it
somewhere, but the unit of love for measurement of it is one bit,
unit of information. And yes, I understand operational security,
but absolute isolation from everybody else, and complete secrecy
about his thoughts is not only ludicrous (because `bus factor`_
of the Order of Phoenix was essentially one) but it also
testifies to quite a dysfunctional personality. For all his talks
about love being the biggest magic in the world, he was saying it
as somebody who knows love only from afar, not from his personal
experience.

Also, if you are telling me that he couldn’t be in love with
anybody because he was carrying a torch for Grindelwald all that
time, in the same manner, Snape was carrying the torch for Lily,
I don’t believe you. I don’t trust that one either (it seems
quite obsessive and unhealthy not to be able to grieve through
that loss in eleven years at least to the level that one is not
bullying a son of your former lover), but at least Snape’s love
I can rationalize. Carrying a torch for the equivalent of Hitler
or Putin for ninety years is a sign of a seriously disturbed
personality, in my opinion. Love is not sickness, and when your
crush turns out to be a horrible monster, a normal person grieves
for a while mostly for the lost hope and goes on with his life.
Not keeping flame for another **ninety** years.

So, I am not into evil!Dumbledore or the manipulative!Dumbledore,
just into his rather a flawed personality. Not morally, but
psychologically.
 
.. _`Anger and Albus Dumbledore`:
    https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/wbpd47/comment/ii8f6ec/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

.. _`bus factor`:
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor