Character Analysis Of Dumbledore

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Dumbledore : The Dumb one Adored When you think of Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, besides his vastly long name, what comes to mind? For most, it isn’t the fact that Dumbledore is an extremely flawed character, but it should be. Firstly, the things he put Harry through are unacceptable. Secondly, what was he thinking hiring all those terrible/questionable Defence Against the Dark Arts teachers? Dumbledore’s reputation should not be sugar coated and molded into him being a perfect man - he is not a bad person nor is he all good. Firstly consider all of the things that Dumbledore put Harry through. The very first being leaving him on the Dursley’s doorstep. “‘I’ve come to bring Harry to his aunt and uncle. They’re the only family he …show more content…

Yes, yes, the job was jinxed (“"You see, we have not been able to keep a Defence Against the Dark Arts professor for more than a year since I refused the post to Lord Voldemort.’ - Albus Dumbledore”), but there has got to be a way to undo a jinx right? Anyways, how on Earth did Dumbledore manage to miss that Voldemort was living on the back of Quirinus Quirrell's head? Dumbledore was not a dumb man, be had a brain, how did he not figure that out? Second year : Gilderoy Lockhart is a terrible, lying, fraud. According to Pottermore.com (J.K. Rowling’s official website) it says “McGonagall, who had never liked Lockhart, asked Dumbledore what he thought students would learn from such a vain, celebrity-hungry man. Dumbledore replied that ‘there is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be’”. Um okay, well then when do they get to learn what to do, and how to be? Because once you leave that year, each student is supposed to remember what they studied the year before - when do they make that up? And what about the students who need to take their N.E.W.T.’s (Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Test) and O.W.L.’s (Ordinary Wizarding Levels)? What happens to their six sevenths of an education? Next we have Remus Lupin. Now he was a great teacher - expect for the fact that he was a werewolf… Fourth year, “Mad-Eye-Moody”, who is actually Barty Crouch Junior (a Death …show more content…

His reckless behavior towards Harry throughout the series, and his questionable hiring of teachers, allow us to see that even Dumbledore, a wizard seen as First Class Order of Merlin perfection, is a very flawed human being. Bibliography Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Bloomsbury Publishing, 1997. Lyon, Eric. “Why Does Dumbledore Ignore Harry in the Fifth Book?” Quora, 2 Sept. 2016, www.quora.com/Why-does-Dumbledore-ignore-Harry-in-the-fifth-book. Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005. Rowling, J.K. “Gilderoy Lockhart.” Pottermore, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., www.pottermore.com/writing-by-jk-rowling/gilderoy-lockhart. Mugford, Laura, director. Dumbledore - Is He Daft or Is He Dangerous? Youtube.com, Laurasalwayspottering, 30 July 2017,

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