20 Things Fans Ignore About Harry & Dumbledore's Relationship

Even regardless that it is been over a decade since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows hit bookshelves worldwide and taken J.K. Rowling's loved collection about the Boy Who Lived to an end, us fans have understandably refused to transfer on. We nonetheless soar on any probability to learn extra about the Wizarding World, whether or not those updates come from a Fantastic Beasts movie, new entries printed, or even mere Twitter posts by way of Rowling herself.

While readers and viewers alike recognize every new addition to Rowling's ever-expending global of witches and wizards and magical beasts, nothing can ever somewhat stack as much as the unique Harry Potter books and films. We'll always long for a learning revel in like the one Harry received at Hogwarts, for pals like Ron and Hermione, and for a mentor like Albus Dumbledore.

Harry's bond with Dumbledore was far more potent than the one most often shared between a scholar and his headmaster, and many fans envied their shut relationship. Unfortunately, it wasn't fairly as healthy a connection as some other people make it out to be. Here are 20 Things Fans Ignore About Harry & Dumbledore's Relationship.

20 DUMBLEDORE KNOWINGLY LEFT HARRY WITH A BAD FAMILY

When Lily and James Potter lost their lives attempting to give protection to Harry from Voldemort, their child used to be left without oldsters. Albus Dumbledore knew all about Lily's depraved, resentful sister Petunia and was apparently aware that Vernon Dursley was once an similarly merciless guy, but he left Harry of their care anyway.

Lily's blood sacrifice did be sure that Harry would be safe as long as he remained under his sister's roof, but Albus was additionally considered to be one of the most world's most powerful wizards. Surely he may have secure Harry, whilst also providing him with a happier, fitter adolescence.

19 ALBUS FAVORED HARRY AND HIS FRIENDS

As Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Albus Dumbledore was supposed to be an even, unbiased chief. The school adopted a House Points machine which rewarded just right habits and punished wrongdoing, but Albus utterly abused that system and liked Harry and his pals.

Slytherin earned the House Cup in Harry's first year at Hogwarts, however on the closing second, Dumbledore made up our minds to award Gryffindor some rather random issues to verify their victory.

18 DUMBLEDORE HIRED TERRIBLE PEOPLE TO TEACH HARRY

Several of Dumbledore's ordinary hiring choices either put Harry's life in peril or deprived him of a proper training. Gilderoy Lockhart used to be an evident fraud, Hagrid had no educating enjoy, Sybill Trelawney barely had a grip on her sanity and Dumbledore failed to acknowledge that for a whole year, a Death Eater had taken the place of his Defense Against the Dark Arts rent.

It's no surprise why Harry relied so closely on Hermione's independently-gathered knowledge.

17 ALBUS DIDN'T DO ANYTHING TO STOP HARRY AND SNAPE'S RIVALRY

For years, Harry had a contention with Severus Snape. Harry used to be suspicious of the Potions professor's true allegiance, and Snape blamed Harry for Lily's dying. Dumbledore knew each side of this feud, however did not anything to assist Harry and Snape get over their issues with each other.

If Snape didn't give Harry some of his memories in his final moments, Harry by no means would have known about Snape and Lily's connection or Snape's years of seeking to honor Lily by way of protecting Harry at the back of the scenes. Dumbledore's secrecy kept Harry from appreciating Severus until he was once already gone.

16 DUMBLEDORE LIED TO HARRY ABOUT HIS HEART'S DESIRE

Dumbledore in most cases chose to withhold the reality from Harry over outright lying to his favourite pupil, but if Harry asked Albus what he noticed within the Mirror of Erised, Dumbledore gave him an absolutely cheating solution.

He claimed that he saw himself maintaining a pair of socks, when actually he most likely noticed himself with former flame Gellert Grindelwald. There in point of fact wasn't any explanation why for Dumbledore to cover this facet of himself from Harry.

15 DUMBLEDORE GAVE HERMIONE, NOT HARRY, A TIME-TURNER

Dumbledore perceived to believe Harry above all of Hogwarts' other scholars, but if it came time to offer somebody one of the crucial powerful magical items in existence, Albus in truth handed it over to Hermione Granger.

Dumbledore let Hermione use a Time Turner to take more than one categories directly, as a substitute of giving it to Harry so he may just use time trip to stop Voldemort or save blameless lives. Fans will understandably never moderately perceive this decision.

14 THE HISTORIC GOBLET OF FIRE INCIDENT

The Dumbledore of the Harry Potter books and the Dumbledore of the movies are not at all times equivalent. Take for example one of the controversial scenes in Goblet of Fire, when Albus asks Harry if he put his personal title into the goblet to be entered into the dangerous Triwizard Tournament.

In the novel, Albus requested this of Harry in a relaxed, patient manner that fit the headmaster's typical personality. In the film, alternatively, Albus sounded livid and demanded an immediate resolution, putting his hand aggressively on Harry's shoulder.

13 ALBUS DIDN'T KEEP HARRY SAFE DURING THE TRIWIZARD TOURNAMENT

When Harry made it clear that he did not enter himself into the Triwizard Tournament, Dumbledore knew that one thing was once mistaken and that Harry's lifestyles may well be in peril. For some reason, although, he did not move on to do the entirety in his power to make sure Harry would make it out of the dangerous tournament alive.

Harry still discovered himself going through off towards a dragon, mermaids and a daunting enchanted maze, and can have perished at any level. At the development's conclusion, he ended up in a graveyard with Voldemort and his fans, and Dumbledore did nothing to lend a hand.

12 ALBUS SPENT MONTHS REFUSING TO LOOK AT OR SPEAK TO HARRY

When Voldemort returned, Harry yearned for Dumbledore's strengthen and wisdom greater than ever earlier than. But since Albus apprehensive that the Dark Lord would use his connection with Harry to enter the teenager's mind, he spent the primary a number of months after Voldemort's resurgence totally ignoring Harry.

Dumbledore wouldn't communicate without delay to Harry and even glance him within the eye, and since he did not trouble explaining why he was acting so unusually, Harry was once extremely harm and assumed that he'd performed something flawed.

11 ALBUS MADE HARRY TAKE PRIVATE LESSONS WITH HIS LEAST FAVORITE PROFESSOR

In order to stay Voldemort from coming into Harry's mind, Dumbledore organized for his prized pupil to be informed the mind-shielding art of Occlumency. Instead of educating Harry himself or arranging for Harry to take classes with somebody the teenager relied on, then again, Albus selected Snape as Harry's tutor.

Harry and Snape hated each and every different, so their exceptionally-important classes went poorly. If Harry in reality learned Occlumency correctly, he might have been in a position to protect himself from the psychological manipulations which led to Sirius' demise.

10 DUMBLEDORE SHOULD HAVE TOLD HARRY ABOUT HIS IMPENDING DOOM

When Dumbledore's craving to look his dead sister convinced him to place on an enchanted ring which contained the Resurrection Stone, he was once in an instant subjected to a deadly curse. Snape did the whole thing he could to include the curse and purchase his good friend a while, but nothing he may do could delay the curse's results for long.

Albus knew his days have been numbered, so he did nothing to stop Voldemort's plan to carry about his removal. Instead of just telling Harry the truth, regardless that, he let Harry imagine that Snape unjustly ended his existence.

9 ALBUS USED HARRY TO MANIPULATE SLUGHORN

Dumbledore and Harry did not actually spend all that a lot time in combination. On the few events that they did in truth socialize, it was once continuously for a selected purpose and now not just because Albus loved Harry's company.

Dumbledore wanted Horace Slughorn to go back to Hogwarts so he could procure his wisdom about Voldemort's Horcruxes, so he used Harry to manipulate the outdated Potions professor. He introduced Harry to Slughorn's house during his hiring pitch, and used Slughorn's love for "collecting" influential other people in his Slug Club and his outdated fondness for Lily Potter to convince Horace to show once more.

8 ALBUS ASKED A TEENAGER TO EMBARK ON AN INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS MISSION

Harry and Dumbledore slightly survived obtaining a fake Horcrux from an enchanted collapse Half-Blood Prince, however that didn't prevent Albus from telling Harry that he needed to proceed the seek for the remainder of Voldemort's Horcruxes... with out assist from skilled adults.

Harry was once simplest allowed to entrust Ron and Hermione with this project. Surely any individual like Kingsley Shacklebolt or Arthur Weasley will have been filled in at the Horcrux hunt and would have made for precious allies in such a seemingly impossible and wildly bad job.

7 DUMBLEDORE DIDN'T TELL HARRY HE WAS A HORCRUX

Dumbledore found out that when Voldemort forged a Killing Curse on child Harry, he by chance turned Harry into his ultimate Horcrux. Instead of telling Harry this, Albus did the whole lot he could to govern Harry into sacrificing his own existence when the time came so the Dark Lord may just in the end be destroyed.

Even Snape identified that this used to be like main a lamb to slaughter, however Dumbledore didn't seem to care. He believed that lying to Harry was once the one technique to get him to do the best factor when the moment for Harry to die arrived.

6 HARRY DIDN'T REALLY KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HIS FATHER FIGURE'S HISTORY

Many fans view Dumbledore as a father determine to Harry, but their relationship used to be extremely one-sided as Albus by no means if truth be told let Harry know anything else about himself. He instructed Harry the bare minimal vital to guide the teenager down his desired trail, so Harry did not be told fundamental details about Dumbledore and his difficult history till the headmaster was once lifeless.

Rita Skeeter's biography about Dumbledore's existence was filled with gildings, nevertheless it additionally contained quite somewhat of reality and was Harry's most effective real way of acquiring knowledge about his idol's previous.

5 ALBUS COULD HAVE JUST ADOPTED HARRY

When Albus first of all left baby Harry within the Dursley's care, he would possibly have idea that parenthood would trade Vernon and Petunia's personalities. It didn't, of course, and so they were completely horrible to Harry all through his entire formative years.

Dumbledore could have, at any level, taken Harry clear of his abusive aunt and uncle and simply followed him. He may have secure Harry himself, and taught him powerful magic that'd make certain Harry can be higher fitted to maintain himself as well.

4 DUMBLEDORE WAS RARELY THERE FOR HARRY WHEN HE WAS NEEDED

Some fans attempt to shield Dumbledore via announcing that he at all times did what he may to keep Harry protected. Sure, he sent Fawkes and Dobby to Harry in moments of danger, but the one time he in truth confirmed up in particular person to help the teenager was once the Ministry of Magic showdown towards Voldemort in Order of the Phoenix.

When Harry discovered himself facing Professor Quirrell, Barty Crouch Jr., a basilisk, a dragon and a cemetery full of Death Eaters, his headmaster was nowhere to be found.

3 ALBUS FAILED TO TEACH HARRY ANY POWERFUL SPELLS

Albus used to be one of the powerful wizards in all of the international, and his magical ability made him the one wizard that Voldemort feared. He knew countless powerful spells that could not be found in a e book, but he by hook or by crook failed to show Harry a unmarried one among them.

Throughout all the series, "Expelliarmus" appeared to be the one spell Harry knew the right way to cast. Disarming is definitely helpful, however it's not anything in comparison to the magic Dumbledore may have taught him if he'd most effective taken the time.

2 DUMBLEDORE HAD SEVERAL OTHER TOOLS HE COULD'VE GIVEN HARRY, BUT DIDN'T

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The magical world is full of useful spells, potions and pieces, and Dumbledore knew each trick within the ebook.

If he and Harry in point of fact had a excellent relationship, he would have taken the time to whip Harry up some Liquid Luck to swing the odds in his scholar's prefer or equip Harry with different powerful potions or methods, however he urged Harry to place himself in harm's manner with out assisting him in any vital method.

1 ALBUS DIDN'T BREAK THE ELDER WAND TO ENSURE VOLDEMORT COULDN'T USE IT AGAINST HARRY

For a long time, Dumbledore used the omnipotent Elder Wand to solidify his position as some of the global's most bold wizards. He knew that his demise was looming and that Voldemort would wish the Elder Wand if he ever found out its true nature, however instead of destroying the wand to make sure it might by no means fall into the improper fingers, he used it until his ultimate moments.

Pure luck ensured that Harry will be the wand's true owner and that it couldn't be used by Voldemort to eliminate him. Albus must've simply broken it.

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