And it was time and past time to ask Draco Malfoy what the other side of that war had to say about the character of Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore.
I love the recent (Humanism-era) take on Dumbledore. It’s about time MoR stopped portraying him as a fool and showed his real scheming, ruthless side. Portraying Dumbledore as weak or foolish doesn’t appeal. But seeing him as a scary, morally ambiguous, overwhelmingly powerful wizard who saved the world from Voldemort with gossip is a development I like. That’s a guy who can really bite the bullet (in this case regarding his implications of prophecies) and then shut up and multiply.
I love the recent (Humanism-era) take on Dumbledore. It’s about time MoR stopped portraying him as a fool and showed his real scheming, ruthless side. Portraying Dumbledore as weak or foolish doesn’t appeal. But seeing him as a scary, morally ambiguous, overwhelmingly powerful wizard who saved the world from Voldemort with gossip is a development I like. That’s a guy who can really bite the bullet (in this case regarding his implications of prophecies) and then shut up and multiply.
I’d never thought about it this way before but that makes it seem really awesome.