At that point in the story Dumbledore knew fuck all about Harry’s connection to Voldemort.
Are you sure? Didn’t he suspect since basically the night of the scar incident that Voldemort left a remnant of some kind on Harry?
The Slughorn memory of the horcrux in the half blood prince is not a revelation, just a confirmation. He got the ring before that. It’s not quite clear when exactly Dumbledore learned about Voldemort making horcruxes, but it was definitely long before we as readers learn about it.
There is no real evidence to your claim that he doesn’t know at year 2 already, he might already be in the mode of “knows but hopes there is still time to let him be a child”.
It’s not quite clear when exactly Dumbledore learned about Voldemort making horcruxes
Isn’t it after Harry describes how Young Voldemort emerged from the diary in the Chamber of Secrets?
Iirc it was when Voldemort was unable to kill Harry at the end of the 4th year that Dumbledore realized that there was probably a horcrux inside Harry?
I’m definitely not well versed enough in Potter lore to continue this further 🤣
This is the part where you make things up. Draco knew Harry was a horcrux and that’s why he was such a dick to him.
I thought it was Draco’s sexual frustration in finding Harry so attractive but knowing that he’s hetero that made him compensate by trying to put him down so as to be able to think “he’s such a shitty guy, I don’t want to have anything to do with someone like that anyway”
I mean why else would he have his sex toys Crabbe and Goyle with him all the time otherwise, right?
Draco’s sexual frustration in finding Harry so attractive
Unexpected !drarry@literature.cafe.
Of course that’s a thing :)
Draco was a dick to Harry because he had a crush on him.
!drarry@literature.cafe is that way.
Dumbies didn’t give a single shit. He only stopped being a genocidal dark wizard because his fascist boyfriend killed his disabled sister and knocked over his glass menagerie.
Edit: Am I really the only person that gets that Dumbledore is straight out of a Tennessee Williams’ play?
And honestly, that’s fine. Yep, people are evil. But it’s better to notice the errors in your ways and make real change within you than staying on the evil path, and I think Dumbledore managed to do it. He’s a deeply flawed person, but also managed to become a pretty amazing one after making mistakes and experiencing the consequences, and I think that should be celebrated more than having once been evil should be shamed.
Because what’s the point for evil people to change, if they’ll ever always be remembered for being evil? Might as well stay evil if there’s no chance to be forgiven. I think there should always be a real path to redemption.
I think they were duelling already over disagreements in philosophy, and Ariana got caught in the crossfire
