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To think Dumbledore was a massive cheater?

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Slytherine · 07/11/2021 17:44

Just finished watching the first Harry Potter film on TV and forgot about the injustice for the Slytherins at the end. I have changed my name in solidarity.

So the Slytherins get the most House Points (presumably fairly as most of the professors at Hogwarts could barely hide their disdain for Slytherin House so wouldn’t have been dishing out points to them for no reason) and are sat there enjoying their win of the House Cup, and celebrating with the room decorated in their House colours, and then former Gryffindor Dumbledore just decides (even though the school year was officially over!!) to throw out an unreasonable amount of points to Harry, Hermione and Ron drawing them level with Slytherin, and then a further 10 points to Neville pushing Gryffindor over the edge and into the win. And then, just to rub salt into the wound, publicly humiliated them by casting a spell to replace all the Slytherin colours with the Gryffindor colours and gives them the award instead and they all celebrate, including him and most of the teachers, and Slytherin has to sit there and just accept it??

AIBU to think WTAF and that was very unfair and he was biased by doing this and it’s no wonder the Slytherins were openly hostile and dismissive of him after that!? I’d be fuming if I were a Slytherin student and if I were a parent of a Slytherin student I’d be marching up to the school myself and having a word with the head.

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Aroundtheworldin80moves · 07/11/2021 21:29

Other people i feel sorry for... Hermiones parents. She pretty much abandoned them when she was in second year.

With magical transport, hogwarts pupils could easily weekly board!

Queenoftheashes · 07/11/2021 21:29

Voldemort was a victim of mental instability due to inbreeding and a product of a clearly unsuitable orphanage system

Ooh like Daenerys Targaryen

Hermione could have done way better than whiny Ron

fucking hell I know. She demonstrated an ability to ensnare World Cup quidditch players and doesn’t seem to undervalue herself. Also doesn’t seem to have much connection with Ron they just bicker. Sold herself short like many women.

Why the hell does everyone in the wizarding world end up marrying their 6th form partners?!

Yeah it’s really weird and gross. Mind you there only seem to be about 200 wizards in the uk so they prob know they need to act at school or all the best ones will be gone (think I’m paraphrasing a Weasley?)

whosaidtha · 07/11/2021 21:36

Along the lines of ending up with high school partners. Why do they all name their kids after dead people. It's wrong. They are not a replacement for people you lost.

whosaidtha · 07/11/2021 21:38

My most controversial thought on hp in general is Harry's relationship with Sirius is based on nothing. In the whole books he spends a total of three weeks with Sirius and a handful of letters. How can you develop the deep meaningful connection everyone thinks they had in that time. Not to mention the fact that in those three weeks Sirius is so grumpy and miserable. We can all relate after months of lockdown but would still be annoying to live with.

PurpleParrotfish · 07/11/2021 21:40

As someone who’s not a massive HP fan but the films are often on in the background in our house, the bit that bugs me is the way the Slytherins all file out before the final battle. It would have been so much more satisfying if a handful decided to stay and fight against Voldemort.

Queenoftheashes · 07/11/2021 21:51

Yeah I always thought Harry and Sirius were weird. Just both desperate for James back I guess

The names Harry gives his kids are fucking ridiculous. Limit it to the middle names like a normal person.

Queenoftheashes · 07/11/2021 21:53

Should have included pic

To think Dumbledore was a massive cheater?
GrandTheftWalrus · 07/11/2021 21:55

Harry was manipulated into being friends with Ron as well. Why else would Molly Weasley who had sent 5 kids to Hogwarts already be asking loudly what the platform number is?

Queenoftheashes · 07/11/2021 21:57

Excellent point

TractorAndHeadphones · 07/11/2021 22:00

Well Malfoy didn't marry his 6th form partner.
It was only the Harry-Ron-Hermione triangle.

From a writer's POV also probably to end the story happily ever after w/o introducing new characters.

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 07/11/2021 22:02

Yes I’ve always thought this! Some of the kids are as young as 11. How could you make them think they’d won and then snatch it away like that?

But I agree, it’s the tip of the Dumbledore iceberg!

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 07/11/2021 22:04

The names Harry gives his kids are fucking ridiculous. Limit it to the middle names like a normal person.

^^
Also this! And why doesnt Ginny get to call any of her kids a name that means something to her? I know Molly and Arthur get taken by some cousins somewhere along the line, but does she have no names that are important to her?

Queenoftheashes · 07/11/2021 22:09

Plus Albus Severus is just cruel.

SickAndTiredAgain · 07/11/2021 22:10

@whosaidtha

My most controversial thought on hp in general is Harry's relationship with Sirius is based on nothing. In the whole books he spends a total of three weeks with Sirius and a handful of letters. How can you develop the deep meaningful connection everyone thinks they had in that time. Not to mention the fact that in those three weeks Sirius is so grumpy and miserable. We can all relate after months of lockdown but would still be annoying to live with.
No I totally agree with this. It makes no sense for them to be close. Why is he closer to Sirius than Lupin? Lupin taught him for a year and is less of a twat.
potoforchids · 07/11/2021 22:11

@Glassofshloer sorry have to disagree with this, Snape was a twat!

evtheria · 07/11/2021 22:14

@Waahingwashingwashing

If Harry was a horcrux - the one that Voldemort never meant to make - could the Dursley’s have been horrible because they were living with a horcrux? Look at what it did to Ron having the thing around his neck
Omg
IWishToAnswerInTheAffirmative · 07/11/2021 22:16

It’s awful that Harry lost Sirius.

I think about that often.

44PumpLane · 07/11/2021 22:18

@Aroundtheworldin80moves yes I agree..... With the Flu network they could literally all be home by 4pm, never mind a weekly board!

Glassofshloer · 07/11/2021 22:21

@IWishToAnswerInTheAffirmative

It’s awful that Harry lost Sirius.

I think about that often.

Me too.

Shallow but Sirius was absolutely gorgeous and moody. Loved him.

Glassofshloer · 07/11/2021 22:22

@whosaidtha

My most controversial thought on hp in general is Harry's relationship with Sirius is based on nothing. In the whole books he spends a total of three weeks with Sirius and a handful of letters. How can you develop the deep meaningful connection everyone thinks they had in that time. Not to mention the fact that in those three weeks Sirius is so grumpy and miserable. We can all relate after months of lockdown but would still be annoying to live with.
Because Sirius was the closest thing to a living relative he had. And Sirius saw James in Harry.
EyesAsGreenAsAFreshPickledToad · 07/11/2021 22:32

No one in the books is perfect, and no one is all evil (except Voldemort I guess

Dolores umbridge was more evil than old mouldy Voldy

Glassofshloer · 07/11/2021 22:34

[quote potoforchids]@Glassofshloer sorry have to disagree with this, Snape was a twat! [/quote]
😢

To think Dumbledore was a massive cheater?
TitoMojito · 07/11/2021 22:34

Dumbledore was a twat. Everything he did was twatty. And the house points system was a mess. Points to Neville for trying to stop your friends breaking the rules. Shut up, man. It's as bad as when my school starting giving out prizes for using the bins.

WithANameLikeDaniCalifornia · 07/11/2021 22:37

*I mean nobody is coming out of it well

Apart from Mrs Weasley of course*

Why couldn’t she just get a job though? The family is so poor Ron has to wear his granny’s dress. All the children were at boarding school all year and housework takes 2 seconds when you can use magic. What did Molly do all day?
I guess every story needs a token poor character/family

SickAndTiredAgain · 07/11/2021 22:38

@EyesAsGreenAsAFreshPickledToad

No one in the books is perfect, and no one is all evil (except Voldemort I guess

Dolores umbridge was more evil than old mouldy Voldy

Oh yeah, I forgot about her.