Is Dumbledore as great as he seems?
Short & Curly
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🗓️ 22 June 2016
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
He is wise and old and learned and kind, but the Principal of Hogwarts is not perfect. He deceives, he holds back really important information about issues of life and death, and is willing to sacrifice Harry Potter for the good of the many, leading him (as Professor Snape says) “like a pig to slaughter”. So, is Dumbledore an ethical person? How flawed are we allowed to be and still be counted as “good”?
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| 0:00.0 | All rise. This court is now in session. |
| 0:07.0 | Today we are hearing serious accusations being made against Professor |
| 0:14.7 | Albus Dumbledore. |
| 0:16.7 | Principal of Hogwart School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, one of the top |
| 0:22.2 | visiting schools in the world. We are here to decide |
| 0:25.8 | whether Dumbledore, our favouritist wizard of all, really is the good guy he seems to be. |
| 0:32.2 | Today you will be a member of a very important jury in a very |
| 0:37.0 | important trial. |
| 0:38.0 | Hello, today you're listening to Short and Curly. You're listening to Short and Curly. |
| 0:45.0 | Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times |
| 0:50.0 | if one only remembers to turn on the light. |
| 0:54.0 | You're listening to short and short and short and clear. Whoa, whoa, what's going on? Whoa, I've been here. |
| 1:04.0 | Whoa, wait a sec. What's, what's going on? Where am I? |
| 1:12.0 | Hello, Carl. I've been expecting you. |
| 1:15.0 | Uh, Molly, where are we? |
| 1:18.0 | And why are you dressed like that? |
| 1:19.0 | We're in court! The famous wizard courtroom of Wisen Gamut. |
| 1:24.0 | Like in the Ministry of Magic from the 5th Harry Potter Book? |
| 1:28.0 | The very one! I apparated us here. |
| 1:31.0 | What are we doing here, Molly? |
| 1:33.0 | Carl, I've brought you here today because of the incredibly horrible, defamatory, possibly illegal |
| 1:40.1 | thing you said earlier about one Albus Dumbledore. |
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