Twizzlers (Red, not Black)

[albuspresley]

I am afraid I have a confession to make. I am not, in fact, 156 years old. I did not, as I have told those with too much time on their hands and a copy of the Hogwarts enrollment records from the 1850s, enter Hogwarts a year late because I was trapped in a pocket dimension by my brother Aberforth for five months after we had a fight over his

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[waitingfortom]

Excellent. Such a fine example of deceit you set for this school. You will help to corrupt them all.

[albuspresley]

Are you quite all right Miss Weasley? Have you considered seeing Madame Pompfrey? I expect you are months overdue for a mental health assessment.

[waitingfortom]

Don't call me that. That girl is gone. If you thought I needed a mental health assessment, it could have come years ago.

But I don't. I'm powerful now, Dumbledore.

[deranged_gofer]

Oh Force, that is it! No more Muggle films for you!

[deranged_gofer]

You're really brave for doing this, Headmaster. Finally coming out with the truth for all these years, it's just such an admirable thing to do, knowing you'll have to face with other people's disdain over your (tiny and meaningless!) lie. It takes so much guts and I have such huge respect for you because of this.

I mean, what's one year? It would've been completely different if you turned out to be 120 years old (not that you look a day older than it!).

I still have enormous faith and trust in you, this doesn't effect my opinion at all in that way.

Well done!

[albuspresley]

Thank you Mister Weasley, I am heartened by your wisdom and understanding, it means much to me.

[putasockinit]

Dobby iz stunned!

Dobby likes Professor Dumbledore very much, sir! You have alwayz been a good friend to uz, but now Dobby doez not know what to think!

Doez anyone know how to unfriend on this thing?

[deranged_gofer]

Why certainly, Dobby!

This should get you started!

[putasockinit]

Dobby iz not amused!

[deranged_gofer]

Well, George thinks Dobby should be faithful to Dumbledore since Dumbledore is now Dobby's employer! Never question the boss, George thinks.

And George is incredibly amused.

Also, George should definitely stop talking like this.

[deranged_gofer]

I don't have any idea what to think of this news. I am shocked, to put it bluntly, and I am quite frankly feeling rather betrayed. Granted, I had actually forgotten just how old you really were, a lie is a lie. From the perspective of a student, and business entrepreneur, this seriously calls into question your capacity to administrate as headmaster, and I, for one, no longer feel comfortable and carefree as a student at Hogwarts. If you are lying about your age, who knows what else are you being untruthful about!

I mean no disrespect, but I hope you understand the precarious position this puts me in.

Thank you.

[albuspresley]

I confess, I did wrong by you and the rest of Hogwarts. I cared about you too much. I cared more for your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my age, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if my age was misrepresented. In other words, I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act.

Is there a defence? I defy anyone who has watched you as I have - and I have watched you more closely than you can have imagined - not to want to save you more pain than you had already suffered. What did I care if numbers of nameless and faceless people and creatures were slaughtered in the vague future, if in the here and now you were alive, and well, and happy?

[waitingfortom]

Interesting how some of us are treated as if we were the nameless and faceless, isn't it? Some are saved from pain, and others aren't. Why, unless you're Harry Potter, you can't expect Dumbledore's assistance, can you?

[deranged_gofer]

I think if you're on Voldemort's side, you shouldn't expect Dumbledore's assistance.

[hufflepuff4life]

I, for one, am scandalised.

Right, no. I don't see how I could care less.

[albuspresley]

Quite reasonable, Mister Finch-Fletchley. My Theraponus spell suggested I get it out in the open, or I would not have troubled you.