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laurus_nobilis) wrote2008-01-28 02:30 pm
laurus_nobilis) wrote2008-01-28 02:30 pm
that other Dumbledore OTP
You know, I'm curious about something.
Am I the only one who thinks that Dumbledore and Elphias Doge had a relationship when they were young, but then Elphias moved on and lived his own life? And that the reason why he acts like that in DH is because he's very old, one of his best friends died recently, everyone's reading Rita Skeeter's awful book, and he was under attack from Aunt Muriel?
I mean, the guy is Special Advisor to the Wizengamot and a member of the Order of the Phoenix. That doesn't sound like someone who's had a life of constant whining to me. But most of the fandom seems to think that it went like this: "Oh no! I broke up with my high school boyfriend at 18! I WILL NOW DEVOTE THE REST OF MY LIFE TO ACT LIKE SMITHERS!"
Seriously, people. Elphias =/= Smithers.
That should be a banner or something.
Am I the only one who thinks that Dumbledore and Elphias Doge had a relationship when they were young, but then Elphias moved on and lived his own life? And that the reason why he acts like that in DH is because he's very old, one of his best friends died recently, everyone's reading Rita Skeeter's awful book, and he was under attack from Aunt Muriel?
I mean, the guy is Special Advisor to the Wizengamot and a member of the Order of the Phoenix. That doesn't sound like someone who's had a life of constant whining to me. But most of the fandom seems to think that it went like this: "Oh no! I broke up with my high school boyfriend at 18! I WILL NOW DEVOTE THE REST OF MY LIFE TO ACT LIKE SMITHERS!"
Seriously, people. Elphias =/= Smithers.
That should be a banner or something.