#👎👎 for dumbledore

[rewritingcanon]

which sibling dynamic be reminding you of daylight by david kushner? i honestly think it could fit ANYTHING

[impulse-anchor]

(Severus Snape in The Devil's Smile)

◘ Severus Snape / D.A.D.A Professor ◘

◦  Former Potions Professor/Master

◦ Currently D.A.D.A Professor

◦ Double Agent

🔍 Overview 🔎

Full Name: Severus Tobias Snape

Pronunciation: s EH - v er - uh s / t oh - b AY - uh s / s n ai p

Nickname(s): The Half-Blood Prince (himself), Sev (others)

Preferred Name: Severus / Professor Snape

Age: 36

Sexuality: Prefers emotional/intellectual bonds with the people he is with

Pronouns: He/Him

Height: 5'11

Weight/Build: Thin/ muscular

Scars/Birthmarks/Distinguishing Markings: Death Eaters Mark on the left forearm, Scars on upper body

🗣️ Personality & Morals ⚖️

Are they…(bold which term applies to the character):

introvert / extrovert / ambivert

risk-taker / cautious

organized / disorganized

close-minded / open-minded

calm / anxious / restless

disagreeable / agreeable / in-between

patient / impatient

outspoken / reserved

leader / follower / flexible

empathetic / un-empathetic

optimistic / pessimistic / realistic

traditional / modern / in-between

hard-working / lazy

Moral alignment (chaotic good, lawful neutral, etc): Lawful Neutral

👍 Strengths & Weaknesses 👎

Strengths/Skills (Mental/Physical): Legillimency

Weaknesses (Mental/Physical): Arogance

Biggest Advantage: Powerful, two most powerful wizards put their trust into him

Biggest Vulnerability: His patronus

Mental Ailments: CPTSD, Depression

Physical Ailments: NK

Addictions/Bad Habits: Smokes cigarettes

Phobias: Acrophobia

🏠 Lifestyle 🏠

Birthplace: Spinners End, Cokeworth

Current Residence: Spinners End/Hogwarts

Education: Completed Hogwarts

Religion: None

Philosophy/Outlook on Life: Realist

Job: D.A.D.A Professor

Hobbies: Potion-Making, Sarcasm

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Relationships 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

Status (Single/Dating…/Married to…): Single

Family: Tobias Snape (Deceased - Father), Eileen Prince Snape (Alive - Mother)

Friends: McGonagall

Enemies: Dumbledore, Voldemort (Maybe on both)

Other notable relationships (If any): N/A

📚 Backstory 📚

Childhood: Grew up poor in Spinner's End

Adolescence: Went to Hogwarts

Young Adulthood: Went to Hogwarts, Joined the Death Eaters, Became a Spy

Adulthood: Potions Professor

Present Day: D.A.D.A Professor

[unproduciblesmackdown]

fr tho this was just another “ummmm creating food by magic is...uhh illegal” bad worldbuilding excuse that just makes harry look like a jerk except for the one time he gave some weasleys a crapton of money anyways

I vividly remember the scene in like the second movie where the Weasleys were looking at their school supply list and Molly was like “I really don’t know how we’re going to afford it this year” after they had just risked life and limb to rescue Harry and Harry was sitting there eating their food like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[unproduciblesmackdown]

I saw your Dumbledore posts and I’m just wondering why you think that Voldemort is his fault. Because I don’t. I mean Dumbledore didn’t do anything to him and it was his choice. Plus you said that he did it twice, it was all Grindelwald’s idea to begin with and he chose to go through with it. I get you don’t like him and all but I don’t believe that Voldemort is his fault. Like Voldemort is entirely his own fault.

the guy is a punk ass dong and he’s like, the least wise person ever coz he may know a lot of shit going on but what’s he ever actually do himself with any of it. he’s the most powerful wizard alive and just chills in the bg arranging things for other people to react to the messes he sees coming a mile away, the guy is a menace……..and like firstly why is his reaction to finally realizing that magic ability supremacy is wrong to wait around to do anything abt the other guy and also decide never to take a position in govt?? the magic govt is useless as is and coming in to cause problems like….say he rises to minister of magic, what even is his jurisdiction and authority. also he doesn’t DO anything abt his revelation and this problem that keeps coming up on his watch….like you couldn’t possibly do anything to help anyone or advocate for any change w your new morals?? what a freakin weendog

also with voldemort, like, every Dumbles and Voldes In The Past flashback shows us how wise dumbledore is coz he’s all suspecting tom riddle of being evil. like, so then do something about it or maybe tell everyone or bring it up in a staff meeting that apparently hogwarts has done nothing ever to address the constant problem of purebloodism. or just do nothing about him ever and let him marinate into this super powerful evil murdery guy, that’s your trademark style, not like you aren’t supposed to be super wise and super powerful or anything. what a nerd

nah instead he dumps a baby at the crappiest possible location for it and then leaves him to deal with voldemort every year when he doesn’t even know like, any magic and is a child the whole time. plus it’s all “oh i didnt tell you about your whole obligation to die / kill voldemort coz i was all tenderhearted and wanted you to enjoy your life, which is the same philosophy i used to leave you isolated with abusive relations for the first decade of your life, and i let you confront dangers as a part of training” like, Or Just Train Him, and also how did he KNOW there would be enough fuckin shenanigans at hogwarts to let hp get used to life and death antics and fighting off voldemort? did he just sit back and let it happen? did he Know nobody would happen to get killed by basilisk or whatever annual nonsense was going on? tf

so way to let some random teen take care of the problem. where is he the whole time, btw? every year at hogwarts he like shows up at feasts and maybe harry finds him at other random occasions. but what is he doing. coz it never seems to be anything for the improvement of the school. and he keeps just not even being around. and being ultimately responsible for every fuckin ludicrous thing that happens in hogwarts. remember how 11 yr olds were sent into the forbidden forest coz they were up late. what in sweet wiz god’s name.

and what in the H e c k was he doing in the sixth year????? how did he manage to fuck himself up on horcruxes. way to absolutely go. and then he’s like “oh dude snape you gotta like kill me man” uhhh How?! how do you plan to arrange that? the whole incident on the tower was something he actually didnt really see coming for once. and like oh wow for once in his life he’s trying to prevent a student from dying, and again is only like giving some five second proposition like “but what if you defected instead and live underground til this thing blows over” like, you could’ve said something before…and how did you know you’d get this chance at all?? and how do you expect someone to go for that in like seven literal seconds. and all the wand switcheroos that occurred there and would prove essential was also total coincidence and no thanks to the d-dore…..lord his own death is also totally his fault

like, the one thing he does is show up to duel off voldemort in book 5, thanks for once. but why doesn’t he make THAT kinda shit his plan? like, imagine a world where instead of getting himself killed, dumbledore goes after the damn horcruxes himself, kills off the whole regular body voldemort had going on, figures out a decent way to destroy horcruxes and takes them all out and lets harry smite the last one so the damn prophecy shit is happy. let hermione help, it’ll all be great

he’s wise and powerful for Fuck All and totally passive abt major issues when there’s no reason to be and crap as a protector and totally irresponsible as a headmaster and ultimately comes off as a manipulative Poser get outta here dude. 0 stars. where’s gandalf

but anyways snape is crappier but he’s not in dumbledore’s positions so not as much of a total letdown

[hchollym]

Rereading POA, and their were so many ways you could have caught Peter and they did none of them? Tf Dumbledore

So many things about that storyline are frustrating to me...

First of all, Fred & George had the Marauder's Map for about 4 years before they gave it to Harry in Book 3. You're telling me that they didn't once notice someone named Peter Pettigrew sleeping in Percy's bed and then Ron's? Or that they noticed a strange man in their brother's bed and just though 'Eh, who cares?' I'm not buying it.

There's also the fact that Dumbledore didn't recognize Peter in his Animagus form because he didn't know that the Marauders were Animagi. Seriously Dumbledore?

This is what he said about that:

“Last night Sirius told me all about how they became Animagi,” said Dumbledore, smiling. “An extraordinary achievement — not least, keeping it quiet from me.”

That sounds impressive that they were able to hide it from Dumbledore, right?

Wrong.

Consider this:

“But then Dumbledore became Headmaster, and he was sympathetic. He said that as long as we took certain precautions, there was no reason I shouldn’t come to school… Once a month, I was smuggled out of the castle, into this place, to transform. The tree was placed at the tunnel mouth to stop anyone coming across me while I was dangerous.”

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“They couldn’t keep me company as humans, so they kept me company as animals,” said Lupin. “A werewolf is only a danger to people. They sneaked out of the castle every month under James’s Invisibility Cloak. They transformed… highly exciting possibilities were open to us now that we could all transform. Soon we were leaving the Shrieking Shack and roaming the school grounds and the village by night. Sirius and James transformed into such large animals, they were able to keep a werewolf in check. I doubt whether any Hogwarts students ever found out more about the Hogwarts grounds and Hogsmeade than we did…"

So Dumbledore created a safe place to smuggle Remus out of the castle, but he never once checked on him during those transformations, where he would have seen three strange animals hanging out with a werewolf? What if Remus had escaped and was a threat to the other students? Dumbledore just figured 'Eh, they'll be fine'? That's some excellent leadership for a school right there... 🙄

And the fact that the Marauders did start to wander around the village and school grounds at night - which was highly dangerous, Animagi or not - and Dumbledore never realized it is beyond negligent on his part as the Headmaster, who brought this child to the school!

Even after Snape was almost attacked by Remus, and James saved his life - which Dumbledore clearly knew about, since he mentioned it in Book 1 - Dumbledore never once thought 'Hey, maybe I should check in on him to make sure that doesn't happen again'?

The Marauders weren't impressive for keeping that secret; Dumbledore was a neglectful idiot for not figuring it out. I can't even blame all those Slytherin parents for wanting him fired! 👎

Ultimately, if Dumbledore had put in even a little bit of effort into keeping an eye on the Marauders, he would have figured out that they were Animagi, and he would have known the truth about Sirius & Peter much earlier, so the story would have gone quite differently.

Thanks for the comment! 😊

[hchollym]

Also, Dumbledore had to know the Marauder’s were animagi right? Not only does he know everything that goes on at Hogwarts, he was the Transfiguration Professor before becoming headmaster, meaning he should at least know they were attempting (so should McGonagall for that matter) Like, he should have known, which could have undone a lot of damage I’m not only POA but also in the Marauders era.

Dumbledore claims he didn't know, and I think that he was negligent enough for that to be true, but it is ridiculous! He should have figured it out fairly quickly, and that would have made a big difference for a lot of situations. 👎