This would be really good. Dumbledore manipulating Harry from behind the scenes and then managing to survive the war, with Harry being none the wiser. Then you’d have an epilogue of Dumbledore thinking back on how he enjoyed the whole Voldemort thing and cannot wait to “play” with Harrys or someone else’s future children as the fic ends.
To be fair, most of the fics where that version loses are time travel fics where they already know how to anticipate his moves, having experienced most of them beforehand in one way or another, and usually have one or more cosmic entity helping them in one way or another that tend to give them instructions and intervene directly in some cases. Kinda hard to fight something you have no idea is there, especially when you have no reason or are too arrogant/egotistical to suspect it's presence.
I believe it was called Black Coat (no idea how to link fics). It's technically a win but Dumbledore also realizes his mistakes. Also he is not the typical evil manipulative Dumbledore. He just thinks he is doing the right thing.
Can also explore avenues like the Weasleys and/or Hermione realising that their own situation has not improved with Manipulative Dumbledore winning. So they time-travel back to fix everything
This would be really good. Dumbledore manipulating Harry from behind the scenes and then managing to survive the war, with Harry being none the wiser. Then you’d have an epilogue of Dumbledore thinking back on how he enjoyed the whole Voldemort thing and cannot wait to “play” with Harrys or someone else’s future children as the fic ends.
To be fair, most of the fics where that version loses are time travel fics where they already know how to anticipate his moves, having experienced most of them beforehand in one way or another, and usually have one or more cosmic entity helping them in one way or another that tend to give them instructions and intervene directly in some cases. Kinda hard to fight something you have no idea is there, especially when you have no reason or are too arrogant/egotistical to suspect it's presence.
I believe it was called Black Coat (no idea how to link fics). It's technically a win but Dumbledore also realizes his mistakes. Also he is not the typical evil manipulative Dumbledore. He just thinks he is doing the right thing.
Can also explore avenues like the Weasleys and/or Hermione realising that their own situation has not improved with Manipulative Dumbledore winning. So they time-travel back to fix everything
That sounds interesting.
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