#4. convince the man who was unrequitedly in love w harry’s mom to help me (+ also kill me)

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i’m not a dumbledore hater (i think he’s a complex individual doing what he thinks will save the most amount of people) but his decision to leave harry at the dursley’s was dumb af and not just for the obvious/most pressing reason of child abuse.

but for someone who tells harry time and time again that he’s so different than tom riddle, by leaving harry at the dursley’s, he actually created more parallels between the two. because of their awful home lives in the muggle world (where they were attached to no one), they both view hogwarts as their one true home and would do anything to stay there. we see in cos, when riddle’s diary shows harry the memory of hagrid’s expulsion, that harry relates to riddle asking to stay at hogwarts over the summer/riddle’s distress at hogwarts potentially closing (ofc it’s riddle’s fault that that’s happening).

like dumbledore is really lucky harry’s awful childhood didn’t keep him from developing empathy/attachment to others like riddle. like I get the point of leaving harry at the dursley’s was so harry would feel so grateful for hogwarts/the wizarding world that he would be willing to sacrifice himself + the blood protection, but I mean dumbledore was already 0-1 on the outcome of an unloved magic child who could speak to snakes growing up in the muggle world so he was kinda rolling the dice.

but I guess the question is would harry have grown up to be the kinda person willing to actually go through with sacrificing themselves to save everyone if he hadn’t grown up in the dursley’s household?