parseltonquinq:

jilylicious:

Harry’s blind faith in Dumbledore and Dumbledore’s calculated faith in Harry explain so much about both of their characters.

I know so many people hate Dumbledore’s guts but I feel like their interactions are very explanatory on how they view the world and they are so different in the end. 

Somehow Dumbledore manages to foresee what Harry will do when the time comes and Harry never sees what Dumbledore plans but their trust works differently. Harry, this kid who didn’t even know Dumbledore had a brother let alone a long gone sister, trusts blindly and follows his plan to defeat Voldemort, he doesn’t doubt him even though he hears bad things about Dumbledore. On the other hand, Dumbledore, who trusted before and got his trust broken by one boy, doesn’t trust the kid he expects to die when all is said and done. He can calculate his moves but he doesn’t tell him more than he needs to know. 

Dumbledore looks at their relationship like a business transaction but Harry sees him like a father figure because he is so desperate for one. Dumbledore admits that he never wanted to care for the boy but he ended up caring about him immensely but still he managed to keep it on the side. Conversely, Harry solely acts on how he’s feeling; that’s why having logical Hermione and strategic mastermind Ron on his side is so important. 

Harry is obsessed with saving the people he cares about and the casualties and Dumbledore cares about the greater good, greater good means perpetual peace and what happens on the road to reaching this peace is not important. For Harry, that way of thinking is betrayal cause as a person who dealt with death as much, he thinks no one deserves to die. You see that as he tried to save Voldemort from himself in the book by trying to get him to feel remorse; Dumbledore would have killed Voldemort the first chance he got, Harry tries to save him.

There are so many other things but these are few from the top of my head, it’s so sloppily written but I hope it makes sense. 

tl;dr: Their characters are so clashing which shows both of their true colours, completely.

this is so well articulated, I’ve never thought about this