WWDD?

[filkertom]

What would Dumbledore do?

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[ororo]

Roll over in his grave at the travesty of a movie that was released yesterday.

[filkertom]

Ooooh, harsh. That bad, truly? (I'm gonna see it in the next couple of days anyway -- I kinda have to.)

[ororo]

It's just that they overdid the teenage angst and drama, and didn't spend a lot of time focused on the growing up of Tom Riddle (who was very poorly cast and directed IMO). It had moments, but it's easily the worst Harry Potter movie.

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

... and how can I avoid doing it?

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Well, lessee: Don't stick the savior of the Wizarding World with his stupid, greedy, obnoxious Muggle parents; don't set up the kid in a series of toughening exercises that keep killing off his friends and family; and don't eat so many fucking lemon drops. Yeah, that would be a start.

I admit I like the notion behind the campaign, but it's difficult to deal with based on my own opinion of the character. So I put it up there without editorializing.

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

How about, if you get to mentor the Chosen One who is Fated to Stop Teh Evil, maybe let him know how he's going to do it!

Even if it's only Chapter four.

[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

And then, in Chapter Five, Teh Evil will read the Chosen One's mind, and the game will be up.

[fayanora.livejournal.com]

In Dumbledore's defense, he didn't know the Dursleys were that bad, and he was trying to save Harry's life.

[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

I seem to recall Prof. Minerva McG warning Albus they were "Muggles of the worst sort".

But they were the only family Harry had at that point, and blood ties were necessary to maintin the protective charm.

[fayanora.livejournal.com]

Indeed. I think Dumbledore was more concerned about him staying alive than about how he'd be treated.

[fayanora.livejournal.com]

I think Dumbledore knew (or suspected) about the horcruxes from the beginning, and knew Voldemort wasn't dead. After all, Dumbledore *did* hang out with a dark wizard once. And one part of one of the books (forget which one, but maybe even the first) hinted that Dumbledore knew all about dark magic and simply didn't use it.

[jeffreycwells.livejournal.com]

Don't you mean "Who would Dumbledore do?"

NSFW

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

G is what I said 'cause he impressed me,
R is what I growled when first he bit,
I is what I looked in when he faced me,
N, what I grunted when we did It,
D is what I got in Divination,
E is how I did beneath the desk,
L is what I got from those in Slytherin,
W, the Weasleys are grotesque,
A, you kids, don't listen to the subtext,
L, you've figured stuff out alrea-D,
Put them all together, they spell Grindelwald,
The evil dude who cast his spell on me-e-e.

Re: NSFW

[darthparadox.livejournal.com]

Grindelwalpt?

No, wait.

Re: NSFW

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Who is now the lovely and androgynous Jamie Campbell Bower...

That alone will make the last movie worth seeing.

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[briansiano.livejournal.com]

Sort of the same answer I give to the question "What would Jesus do?"

Which is, "He'd probably perform a _miracle_ or something."

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

WWDD ?

Never tell anybody any-f**king-thing, not even if it would save them a butt-load of time, trouble and pain!!

Seriously...he either had trust issues like whoa! or was an utter arse and secretly enjoyed making everyone scurry around like rats in his maze !!

[kkatowll.livejournal.com]

I thought JK came to her senses in this book and realized she'd turned D into pretty much the most mistake-filled, egotistical guy ever...apparently it didn't occur to her at first that it would be super EVIL for a powerful magician to do nothing about a kid who was forced to live in a closet, whose parents hit him with cast-iron pans... particularly since this powerful magician stuck him there against his parents' will and even stuck somebody else nearby to check on him and yet did NOTHING.

And that was just the start of his huge mistakes. I was glad that D started this book by scolding his relatives, but it was too little, too late. I also enjoyed the slow revelation over the course of the books as Harry learns that adults he looks up to are not perfect. That seems to me like a good definition of "growing up." But D goes way beyond not perfect.

Still, his solution for the last book was pretty clever. I won't give it away here (but is there anybody left who hasn't read it???) but I'll say I wasn't fond of the mystical elements of that book. Still, D's solution was clever. So I guess I'll forgive him for being a flawed human being, just like the rest of us. :)

[laurel-potter.livejournal.com]

I like the books, I like Dumberdore, but this just seems kind of stupid to me.

What would Dumbledore do?

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

Evidently, set it up to die as a martyr. And we thought Catholic and Jewish mothers were bad!

[darksunlight.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure he'd do anal. Does the wizarding world HAVE glory holes?

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

I have a bumper sticker on my car that I made up.

WWVD?

"What would Vader do?" and it has a picture of Darth Vader beside it.

Believe it or not, I got pulled over once because of it.

[kayshapero]

Get stuck in the Train Station To Eternity for the rest of his afterlife?

[lindaneely.livejournal.com]

My question is "What did Dumbledore do the first time around?" you know, when Tom Riddle was amassing power and killing off wizards. While Lord Voldemort was rising, what was Dumbledore doing? What ever it was, it wasn't very effective.