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Dumbledore's Morality: Innate or Learned?

[Mar. 9th, 2008|04:36 pm]

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Oh JKR. With every interview you give, my frustration with the HP universe as it stands post-DH grows. Generally I try to avoid reading about the interviews as much as is possible with discussions springing up all over the place. But I couldn't quite pass by the most recent one.

I have to admit that one of the few things that struck me as realistic when I read DH was that Dumbledore obviously wasn't born a paragon of virtue. By the end of his Hogwarts career he was arrogant and somewhat selfish and was well on his way to abusing his power, as those with real power realistically tend to do. He was a product of his childhood. That rung true with me, because in the nature vs nurture challenge I come down pretty strong on the latter side. I don't believe that people are born good or bad. Morality, as I understand it, is learned. It follows, then, that Dumbledore's morality was something that he grew into, not something that was simply ingrained as part of his character.

My reading of DH would suggest that Dumbledore's plans to take over the world (cue dramatic music) came from a mixture of his own self-importance and his views of Muggles as learned through his childhood experiences (particularly, Ariana's run in with the Muggles and the terrible consequences that followed). Ariana's death and the fallout of that is the tragedy that forces him to reassess himself and the world. He restructures his morality based on his newfound maturity and his realisation that his the path toward the 'greater good' would hurt more than the nameless faceless Muggles.

( JKR obviously disagrees )

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FIC: Letters in the Dead of Night

[Jan. 18th, 2008|05:17 pm]

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albus dumbledore, exchanges, fanfiction, gellert grindelwald, slash

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I really should have posted this a few weeks back when the

merry_smutmas reveals went up, but I've been incredibly distracted from the Harry Potter fandom the last couple of months, so I didn't get around to it until now. Hopefully now that my interest in the fandom's picked up again there'll be a few more fics on the way in the near future.

Title: Letters in the Dead of Night
Author: Queen of the Castle
Pairing: Dumbledore/Grindelwald
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Smut.
Summary: It was lucky that Bathilda had found that particular letter. The correspondence that followed had been far less innocent.
Word Count: ~5,500
Author Notes: Written for

marksy for

merry_smutmas. Thanks to my beta, Tabakat, for a wonderful job cleaning up the fic. Thanks also to Gina both for running Smutmas one last time and for helping me fix up a few last-minute issues (not to mention for putting up with my lateness).

Letters in the Dead of Night

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