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We see a large image of past Harry looking directly towards the viewer, upwards, as if the viewer is Dumbledore. The rest of the page content surrounds that figure.

PAST HARRY: You can't hide the truth from me anymore. How you kept me trapped for ten years... watching over me...

PAST HARRY: The stray animals that found me when I ran away from home... you sent them.

We see a memory from the Pensieve: A younger Harry lying on the ground between rows of unmarked boxes. A black cat is pawing at Harry's face. The cat is identical to Voldemort's cat except that the color of its glowing eyes is Dumbledore's color.

PAST HARRY: The knives in the house, too blunt to cut my skin... you blunted them.

We see a memory from the Pensieve. A younger Harry kneels next to a refrigerator and some cabinets, trying to cut zir own throat with a knife. The knife is glowing Dumbledore's color.

PAST HARRY: You... with your magic... in your castle... you took away every possible way for me to escape... carefully... from safety... I hate you. I hate you! I hate you!!

DUMBLEDORE { from off-page }: Oh, Harry... It was a different time...

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encourage me

Harry learned those things from the Pensieve, along with a lot of other things we didn't specifically see. For instance, a memory from the Pensieve is the reason Harry could tell us about the conversation between Dumbledore and Snape.

I'm not sure exactly how Dumbledore blunted the knives in the Dursley house. Maybe it's just one of the effects of a general anti-suicide jinx that ze placed on the house.

Approximate readability: 9.14 (327 characters, 71 words, 4 sentences, 4.61 characters per word, 17.75 words per sentence)

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Comments

Untamable Spirit · December 15, 2014 · Permalink · Reply

This is such a terrible thing for Dumbledore to do! When I first read the first book, I sort of imagined Dumbledore doing things like this for Harry while Harry was with the Dursleys. I didn't think specifically about suicide attempts, but I did imagine Dumbledore saving Harry when zir life was in danger or helping zem when ze tried to run away. But I never stopped and thought that after Dumbledore had placed Harry with zir abusive relatives, Dumbledore was actually blocking Harry's only escapes from the abuse by “protecting” Harry. What a jerk!!!