>Dumbledore didn't notice Voldemort was on the back of Quirrell's head
>Dumbledore didn't know what the fuck a basilisk was
>Dumbledore didn't know one of his professors was chugging down Polyjuice potion every hour
Is Dumbledore the most incompetent "wise" mentor figure in the history of film and literature?
inb4 dullest franchise guy
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Did Dumbledore do anything of worth in the whole series?
>Gives vague warning about "the third floor" instead of saying "there's a fucking giant monster there that will murder you so stay away"
>School is so badly designed you can end up there unintentionally anyway
But did bellenddoor know that he was in one of the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises? Seriously each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.
Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody?just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.
>a-at least the books were good though
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."
I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.
Why didn't any death eater or whoever bad guy just visit Harry during his time at the Dursleys and shoot him with a pistol?
He also allowed a madman to wreak havoc in the muggle world and kill millions of people simply because he was getting dicked by him. Dumbledore was fucking garbage.
It's a series about Harry Potter, he needs to be the one who solves the problems.
But story-wise, the books are told from the perspective of kids that don't know what Dumbledore is doing most of the time; he's not present during most of the action in the books. And Dumbledore is always framed as a person that knows what's going on. I always figured he had his suspicions about those things and wasn't acting on them because he didn't have real proof (and was always busy with other shit running a school). So, instead of rushing into a situation without knowing anything about it, like Harry and his friends, he was paying attention to what was going on and waiting until he was able to identify the problem and what to do about it. There are also tons of hints in a few of the books that he did know what was going on and wasn't doing anything about it because no one was in danger and he wanted to see what certain actions were leading to.
>1984 higher than brave new world
what a shit list
>dumbledore touches a horcrux with his bare hand and kills himself
literally retarded
Maybe it's like the prequels and the big bad was secretly clouding everyone's judgement.
That's a valid explanation for all our protagonists acting like retards rite.