• hogwarts houses: gryffindor • bravery, nerve, chivalry, courage, daring, willful, passionate; you might belong in gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart.
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?
The life and lies of Albus Dumbledore
Holy shit this post improved even more if that’s possible since last time I’d seen it yes.
Without
lifting her gaze from the leather folders she was carrying, Hermione hurried
into the elevator and distractedly slammed her palm against the button of the
ground floor.
“Staying
after-hours again, Granger?”
Hermione
flinched at the voice that had spoken over the metallic rattling noise of the
golden grilles sliding shut and cast a glance over her shoulder at the man leaning
against the far wall. She bowed her head in reluctant greeting.
“I’ve
got… paperwork,” she muttered, turning away and trying to ignore the heat
creeping up her neck.
“Sure. Paperwork…” hummed Malfoy, drawing out the last word in an almost indecent
purr. “What about taking this paperwork somewhere else?”
Hermione’s
gaze flickered to the golden grilles; they were nearing the Atrium. Malfoy’s
office was the closest but they would still have to go back down a few levels.
“I was actually
going to suggest my place,” sounded his voice again as though he had guessed
her thoughts.
Hermione
turned around, a crease appearing between her eyebrows.
“Malfoy…”
she started.
“Yes,
Granger, I know…” sighed Malfoy, rolling his eyes. “As soon as we take it
home it becomes personal. After six months of your repeating it every other
night, I get it. What I don’t get is what would be so terrible about it?”
Hermione
stood still, taken aback, as the elevator screeched to a halt.
“I don’t- I don’t know…”
“Right,”
cut her off Malfoy, his face suddenly shutting, although she glimpsed a flicker
of bitterness in his gaze. “After you…” he said coolly, waiting for her to exit
the elevator.
Hermione
didn’t move.
“I was
going to say I don’t know your address,” she said quietly, stepping out into
the half-deserted Atrium.
Next
moment, she felt a hand settle in the small of her back, firmly steering her to
the row of fireplaces.
“Well, that
can be easily fixed,” whispered Malfoy’s voice into her ear.
“Hermione took out a list of subjects and titles she had decided to search while Ron strode off down a row of books and started pulling them off the shelves at random. Harry wandered over to the Restricted Section.”
Okay but this is legit a summary of how the trio works: Hermione is methodical and organised, Ron is “fuck this I’m winging it #yolo”, and Harry looks for something illegal to do.
persephone's corner 