Dumbledore and Snape: Two characters that shouldn’t be praised over and over

So often, we think about Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape and think they’re great characters but maybe we shouldn’t praise them since they weren’t that great of men.

Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape are two characters that have, in the long run of the Harry Potter fandom, gotten a lot of slack. Meaning that they’re both extremely flawed and yet many fans of the series excuse some pretty terrible behavior because they like their overall storylines.

I’ve never been one of those fans who understand the love for Dumbledore or Snape. They’re both characters that, for me, have made mistakes that have hurt a child and they’re often still held up on this pedestal.

Looking at them, at the bare minimum, they both endangered a child and that’s not even getting into Snape verbally assaulting him year after year because he had a crush on said child’s mother. But more than that, they’re not that great to just Harry and the fact that he then turned and names his son “Albus Severus” as if both those men helped him and didn’t harm him is baffling.

It’s okay to like both Dumbledore and Snape, in my heart I clearly do or this wouldn’t bother me, but I think that we also need constructively look at them as characters and understand why it is also okay to not instantly love Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape. They have flaws, they’re not great, and it is okay for us, as fans, to point that out and talk about why they’re complicated.

What do you think of Snape and Dumbledore? Do you think they’re great characters or do they have their flaws? Let us know what you think in the comments below!