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Dumbledore – original song release

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“Harry it‘s time for you to learn all the things you should have known 7 years ago, which would have helped you along the way”

– Dumbledore, A Very Potter Musical

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There are a lot of layers to Dumbledore’s relationship with Harry. I do think that a lot of what Dumbledore did falls into moral grey areas, but there are some things he did that stuck with me as very dark indeed. I have trouble imagining Harry looking back on everything that Dumbledore did and finding nothing but forgiveness for all of the lies, or for choosing to leave him in an unloving, abusive home for 11 years.

Dumbledore fought hard to redeem himself, but I wanted to write a song to explore the darker side of the man, especially looking back through the eyes of Harry, someone who he lied to repeatedly in order to lead him straight towards his very probable death.

On top of what Dumbledore did to Harry, a large part of this song was inspired by a panel I attended at Denver Comic Con 2015 on big villains, hosted by Dr. Christopher Bell of UCCS. Dumbledore’s relationship with Grindlewald is brought under plenty of scrutiny in the books, but Dr. Bell focused more on his relationship with Tom Riddle, the child and young man.

Tom Riddle was born under the effects of a love potion – incapable of feeling love. He was born cursed, with the seeds of great evil inside of him, yes, but he was not born evil, and Dumbledore played no small hand in watering those seeds. Dumbledore regarded Tom as someone to be pitied and watched, and went so far as to advise Armando Dippet against allowing Riddle to stay on at Hogwarts as staff, casting him out in to the world where he instead pursued a study of the darkest arts.

I’d like to thank Anne Robotz for the awesome cover art, and Kevin Strasser for the lyrics video. Please like and share the video, and the single is available for purchase on loudr and itunes.

Thanks

-Blake Smith


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