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While this doesn’t so much count as a “scam” (because I never heard back from the guy), I did have a lot of fun with a Malaysian gentleman who promised me millions of dollars. I was between jobs (I had a week to kill before my next contract started), so there was ample time and a whole lot of boredom.It’s a bit of a long read, but I was happy with my responses…if you have a few minutes, have a look:The first email:Dear Sachin Bhalla,My name is Chong Kie Cheong, and I work as an Account Manager with United Oversea Bank, Malaysia. I have managed a certain account for a Foreigner here in Malaysia who bears same last name (Bhalla) with you but who unfortunately died leaving in our care a fairly huge amount of money in a Domiciliary United States Dollars Account. We had unsuccessfully tried to make contact with any relatives of this client over the last couple of years but exhaustive enquiries is limited by our professional ethics which obligates us to act with extreme caution and confidentiality when dealing with clients Accounts of this type! This has made it impossible to get round the problem of identifying a next-of –kin in this situation.I require your assistance in securing the estate left behind by my client as any time from now it may be declared unserviceable and consequently confiscated by the Monetary Authorities of Malaysia. Indeed the Monetary Authorities has issued a MANDATORY NOTICE demanding us to provide a next-of-Kin to my client's Estate or have same reserved to the protection of the State of Malaysia.Having satisfied all legal requirements of Beneficiary/next-of-Kin Notification over the past two years, I am convinced that no one will turn up to lay claim to this funds, hence, I write to seek your consent to put you forward and present you as the next-of-Kin of my deceased client since you bear same last name so that proceeds from his Estate can be paid into an account to be provided by your good-self (preferably outside Malaysia financial institutions.)I have all relevant information to validate our claim presenting you as next-of-Kin and all we will do shall be within the confines of all Malaysia regulating Statutes. All I ask is your co-operation and trust and all I can say at this time is that the compensation will be worth every effort and commitment that you will bring into this transaction. On receipt of your response, I shall provide you with my private telephone number with which we shall speak and upon which I shall furnish you with greater details of this transaction.Yours sincerely,Chong Kie Cheong.My Initial Response:Dear Chong,I must say, your letter to me comes as a breath of fresh air. I am surprised that you found me, out of so many other people with the last name "Bhalla" and decided I was worthy of this generous gift. The death of any Bhalla is an unfortunate incident, and the fact that he (or she) possibly left no relatives behind is, as well, tragic. I would be happy to help you out.I must say, Chong, that after having spent the last few years living in Central Asia as a biologist, that your message came at the right time. My vocation has me examining bovine excrement for the greater part of the day, and while I am quite talented at sorting out the male fecal matter from the female, it is not what I had dreamed my life to be when I was a young man growing up in Detroit. I wanted to be a rock star, as most children do (what with the lifestyle and all), but instead I chose the field of science.I find you work fascinating, Chong (by the way, you share the name of one of my all time favourite film stars). This client, I can only assume, passed away recently, yet you were able to spend the last two years securing the proper documents for me? I am impressed, and I must add, quite honoured. I thought that the next-of-kin administration people would have wanted some sort of a blood or DNA sample instead of simply the last name, but then again, that's just the biologist in me.How much commitment is involved here? My ex-girlfriends have told me time and time again that I am afraid of the word, and I tend to believe them. There was this one girl, about 20 years younger than me who was so ready to marry me that she was getting down on her knees quite often. As much as it felt good, I simply wasn't ready. She has recently become engaged to a member of the deposed Syrian royal family, she tells me. I wish her all the best, but at the same time, I think an assassination is in order. The estate funds from this deceased Bhalla of whom you speak would fund most of my dreams.I will wait with the patience of a three horse fiesta (local expression...I use them a lot) for your phone number.Yours,Sachin Bhalla.He was happy that he baited someone:Dear Sachin Bhalla.I thank you for the swift response and I do hope that you will partner with my colleagues and I in realising this once in a lifetime venture. Indeed I am very happy to finally find you with a matching surname as the subject of the Late Investor with our Bank, Mr James Bhalla who before his death had a deposit of 7.6 Million United States Dollars with our Bank here in Malaysia.Its been about Twelve years since Mr James Bhalla died in a car accident here in Malaysia and ever since then,no one has come forward to lay claim to his deposit with our Bank. Statutory finacial regulations stipulates that such deposit will be inherited by the State of Malaysia after a good number of years of a dormant status.I must be frank in saying that, me and other of my colleagues thought it wise to seek a partner who bears same name to evacuate the said funds and share among ourselves instead of allowing it drift into our Government coffers who is not better qualified than you and I to benefit in this rare opportunity! It is against this background that we wrote to solicit your utmost cooperation in this deal--it is our hope to put you forward as a relative of the late depositor since you share last names and make application for the funds.However,before I take this transaction further, I will need your continuous reassurance that after we approve the claim application under your name and United Overseas Bank of Malaysia (UOB) transfer the funds to your bank account , you MUST RETURN by way of bank transfer OUR AGREED percentage (25% of the total claim money to you while me and my colleagues retain 75%) and that you will not disappoint us in this regards because once we approve the payment of the funds to your bank account we cannot disapprove it. Our faiths are virtually in your hands! we hope that you would not take advantage of this fact. I await your response so as to explain in greater datails the full procedures to you.Sincere Regards,Chong Kie Cheong.Had to keep it going:Dear Mr. Chong Kie Cheong,Secondly, I apologize for taking so long to get to your email. I was busy cutting and pasting buts from other emails to people that I consider friends.I firstly must apologize for assuming you are male, as your name rhymes with one of my favourite childhood arcade game characters. Any gorilla that throws barrels at the stereotypical Italian plumber must be a male, don't you agree? I'm sure you do. After all, a man with access to $7.6 million must be one of super intelligence. And, I can only assume (something of which we both know the consequences), your partners and someone with such a regal name as James Bhalla were also of superior intellect.In your first email, you had not mentioned partners. This confuses me to a minor degree, Mr. Kong. I would like to know exactly who these partners are. I could not possibly get into business with someone I don't trust. After all, $7.6 million is quite a lot of money, and I am sure James Bhalla is looking down upon us in his other-worldly status thinking about how his estate will be used for good, rather than the evil that most of us humans are known for. I'm sure you have heard of that billionaire industrialist who has decided to build a massive laser that only targets those left-handed people with moles on their chest and a penchant for lacrosse fights. Such evil (not the lacrosse fights, which I find rather sexy if you don't mind my crudeness), should never be tolerated. I am digressing, however.This billionaire, who shall remain nameless (as I've forgotten his name, although you can google this paragraph to find out more information), started with rather humble beginnings. He found screws on street corners. Every day he would stand on a street corner and look for screws. Now and then, he would find a screw, and sell it for whatever the customer offered. He refined his technique over time, and soon he was selling screws on several street corners. Everything was going great, and then he received a letter (this is in the days pre-internet) that his relative James Sawalanamapindasankarji had, amazingly enough, perished in a car accident and left him $7.6 million. He was soon out of the screw business, but the money got the better of him. Now he is into, as mentioned before, death lasers. I personally would like to put an end to his tyranny, and I am glad you will be able to help me.I must, however, be a little more cautious when dealing with you. I seemingly trust people blindly when they ask for money. In at least two cases, they were friends, but most of the time I've lent money to people anonymously, I was caught up in a web of deceit. I trust you wholly, Mr. Kong, and I know that you trust me. I would, however, need to see a picture of you. I have attached my photograph as evidence that I am who you think I am. This was from an online dating site which proved to be unsuccessful. The woman that I met wanted me to procure seashells from semi-exotic locations. This proved rather difficult, and the resulting legal problems have ended up costing me $7.6 million. I can only hope that the untimely motor death of James "Dean" Bhalla can help me recover at least some of those moneys.In 1999, there were approximately 7,600 fatal car accidents as I am sure you know. It is sad that Jimmy James Bhalla was a casualty of such an unfortunate, freaky deaky phenomenon that only seems to happen in countries where traffic laws seem to simply be suggestions. Had it been somewhere else, say where the hair is more blonde and the eyes are more blue, maybe the all powerful governments could help bring down such fatalities. But seeing as James's 76 friends and relatives have not come forward, I would be happy to fill their seats in with my membership to the club.I require your picture immediately, but it must be of high quality, and not in front of any neutral background. Seeing as you are in Malaysia, a wonderful cuntry which I plan to visit soon enough, the picture must be in front of a palm tree with a proboscis monkey clearly visible. Failure to do so will result in my immediate withdrawal from this project. You and I have at least 7.6 million reasons to make Jimmy Jam James B-Hallah and his memory proud. I hope you do this. Please do this.With Love,Sachin "Skinzzz" Bhalla.Business Time:Dear Sachin Bhalla.I will like you to read this explanation about the business for better understanding. Having been in possession of the vital information needed to claim the funds at the instance of your agreeing, every legal procedure will be observed before claims will be released to you via any bank that is preferably outside of MalaysiaHowever, we will need your continuous reassurance that after we approve your application and UOB transfer the funds to your bank account, you MUST RETURN by way of bank transfer OUR AGREED 75% and that you will not disappoint us in this regards. Because once we approve the payment of the funds to your bank account, we cannot disapprove it. Our faiths are virtually in your hands and we hope that you would not take advantage of this fact. If you and we are both happy to proceed after you receive this letter, the following is how this transaction can be best achieved legally.THE PROCEDURES:According to the banking and the Malaysia laws, to make an inheritance claim of this magnitude, you must do so through a Malaysia based lawyer/solicitor. If you already have a trusted lawyer here in Malaysia whom you would like to use for this transaction, you should give us his information for us to first approve of him before you appoint him/her. On the other hand, if you do not have a trusted Malaysia based lawyer, we can source for one and relay such lawyer’s details to you for you to appoint him/her to act on your behalf in applying and submitting all the necessary applications to the relevant departments including UOB and the courts here in Malaysia for the release of the said funds by wire transfer into your nominated bank account. For clarity, here are your role and our role after we have agreed on the lawyer you are to use for the claim process. These instructions are the only legal way we can succeed with this transaction without any present or future consequences.YOUR ROLE:1. We will give you the reference number relating to the inheritance claim/investment deposit account reference in UOB.2. You make contact with the solicitor/lawyer and instruct him to act on your behalf in the pursuit of your inheritance claim by giving the solicitor/lawyer the inheritance reference number that we will give you.3. You must never inform the solicitor/lawyer that you are working with my colleague and me.4. Once the solicitor/lawyer put in the claim on your behalf, your role stops and our role begins.OUR ROLE:The application goes through the normal application process for verification and approval with the UOB and end up with me and my colleagues for final approval. My colleagues and I have people at these departments to verify and approve the application. After application is approved, payment is issued out to your nominated bank account and notification and all relevant papers and certifications stating that these funds have been released to your bank account will be forwarded to you via the solicitor who acted on your behalf. And that is the end of the claim process.This whole process would take between 21 to 30 working days from start to finish. Once the funds arrive in your nominated bank account, we (my colleagues and I) will fly to meet with you and give you our banking particulars for you to transfer our share (75%) of this business to, while you retain your share (25%). We then shake hands and part ways and everybody will be happy. If the above procedures are acceptable to you, say so by return email we can proceed immediately.This is my direct phone number—(+601-2226-2414).and the best time to call me is after office hours! Between 7pm to 10.30pm local time in MalaysiaThank you,Chong Kie Cheong.The Last Letter:Dear Cheech and Chong,We cannot proceed further until I have your photgraph. In front of a palm tree, and with a native simian species. You do not have to be doing anything untoward to the monkey, but it should be clearly visible in the picture. You have 3 days, as I will be out of town examining even more excrement from even more bovine species. This time it'll be Azerbaijani Bison. I'm sure you've heard of them. They're quite delicious, especially with your mom's barbecue sauce.I repeat: Send me a photograph, and the memory of James Bhalla will reside, 7.6 million times over, in my heart (and solid-gold car...I've already made a down payment on this beauty...see the attached photo).I await your response.Dr. Sachin Bhalla, B.S.- Show quoted text -I continue to await his response.

Source :http://www.tehelka.com/my-husband-my-rapist/.............................................In a sunny schoolroom, off a small dusty lane in Madanpur Khadar, a resettlement colony on the outskirts of New Delhi, a group of 10 women are talking amongst themselves. Some giggle nervously. With a reporter in their midst, they’re too shy to make anything other than small talk, until Bhagwati, a slender, self-assured woman who looks younger than her 39 years, speaks up. She gives a clear, unwavering account of a marriage that had become a living hell. “For many years, I didn’t even know what domestic violence meant. I would just take the anger, the shouting, and the beatings. He would hit me for the smallest of reasons. If there was too much salt in the food, I’d get slaps across my face.” After the beatings, came the rapes. “He would force me into bed for sex. Aisa lagta tha ki uske maarne ka maksad sirf mujhe nanga karne ka tha (It felt as if his beating was aimed at getting me naked).”Marital rape is defined simply as non-consensual sex where the perpetrator is the victim’s spouse. What Bhagwati’s husband did may have been rape but because he is married to her, and she is not under 15 year of age, it is not a criminal offence under the Indian Penal Code (IPC). In early 2000, two-thirds of married Indian women surveyed by the United Nations Population Fund claimed to have been forced into sex by their husbands. The last National Family Health Survey of India (2005-2006) found that 40 percent of women (aged 15-49), married at least once, had experienced physical, sexual or emotional violence perpetrated by spouses. This from a sample size of 1.25 lakh women across 29 states.The women in Madanpur Khadar, all domestic abuse victims, are gathered for a meeting with Jagori, a Delhi-based women’s rights NGO for which Bhagwati now volunteers. They laugh at the idea of their husbands asking for permission. “If they cared about consent, we wouldn’t be here,” Bhagwati says. People mostly associate violence and brutality with ‘stranger rape’. Indeed, they mostly associate rape with strangers. Despite the precipitous rise in stranger rape in Delhi to around 10 percent, thenational figure still hovers around two percent, meaning that the overwhelming number of reported rapes are committed by men known to the victim. Yet, violent stranger rape is the subject of an anguished public discourse while the daily sexual violence women live with in their marriages is unacknowledged, kept hush-hush.‘My husband said that he spent money on me, how dare I not sleep with him. But he never once kissed me. On our wedding night he had sex with me seven times. I was in so much pain I couldn’t move’Neha, 26 | Lucknow | SeparatedTalking to gender rights activists, field workers, lawyers, counsellors, and women across India, it becomes abundantly clear that sexual abuse in marriages (of which the penetrative act of marital rape is just one part) is rife across regions, classes and communities. Such abuse exists, according to Flavia Agnes, the lawyer and feminist, “in a continuum of a range of violence that takes place within the matrimonial relationship.” Violence can include excessive sexual demands, making your wife perform sex acts despite her protests, forcing her to watch and reenact porn, or verbally humiliating her during sex. But rape in India is accompanied by aculture of shame and silence, enforced and internalised by victims. Women, particularly married women, are conditioned to not talk about abuse.Unlike with most stranger rape, the sexual violence in a marriage is meted out systematically over time, until behaviour that would be criminal outside marriage becomes acceptable. Violence that should be an aberration, a shock, becomes normal. Imagine such a life in which unrelenting fear is normal, in which you are forever uncertain what might trigger your husband’s wrath, in which saying no to sex is unthinkable. You might then empathise with and perhaps even begin to understand the sort of life Bhagwati has led. Or taste the sickening brew of fear and shame that pushed 28-year-old Anita, a market research employee from Lucknow, to attempt suicide.Anita was married in 2005, to a man in Maurana village in Unnao district, UP. The abuse started almost immediately. Her husband forced her to be available for sex at his beck and call, day or night, sometimes both. He made her perform oral and anal sex despite her resistance. He wouldn’t even let her leave the bed to go to the bathroom. “This was not a marriage. There was no love between us,” Anita says now. “He was just not concerned with me, never bothered even to talk to me.” His utter indifference and constant demands on her body took their toll. Depressed, afraid, and full of hate for her husband and herself, Anita stopped eating and fell frequently ill. Each time the doctor would tell her husband to abstain from sex for the sake of his wife’s health, he ignored the advice. “He would deny that he that done anything wrong,” she says of her husband. “So many times I tried talking to him, I tried compromising, but he never listened.”‘My husband raped and beat me even when I was pregnant. Three months ago, I tried to commit suicide’Smita, 35 | New Delhi | SeparatedSuicide seemed the only escape. Sadly, Anita could not even rely on support from family and friends. “I asked them to help me,” she says, “but they didn’t listen, didn’t want to understand.” When she found the courage to run away, her family forced her to attempt a compromise, to go back to her abusive husband. Relief came only when Anita got in touch with the Association for Advocacy and Legal Initiatives (AALI), a feminist group in Lucknow that helped her file for divorce. Her husband agreed for a divorce on mutual grounds, only after AALI lawyers warned him about cases under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005 (DV Act).Anita’s case is a typical one — the early onset of abuse; the husband who doesn’t care; families that don’t support women leaving their marriages; aculture of shame. When the Delhi gangrape caused frenzied discussion on sexual abuse in a patriarchalsociety, the government had an opportunity to do the right thing by married women. But the Parliamentary Standing Committee chose to exclude marital rape from the Criminal Amendment Bill 2013. Criminalising marital rape, the committee argued, would weaken traditional family values. As if the institution of marriage were built entirely on a man’s entitlement to his wife, as if she were his property. It is an inherently skewed gender equation. Sex for a married woman is a matter of submitting to her partner’s pleasure. A married woman has no autonomy, no rights over her body. It is almost like the doctrine of coverture followed in England and the United States well into the 19th century, in which a married woman’s rights were essentially signed over to her husband. Back then, British feminists argued that marriage amounted to little more than legal prostitution.‘It feels as if he was like a lion who could come into a jungle, do whatever he wanted and disappear. No one could stop him’Sujata, 30 | Hyderabad | SeparatedBhagwati’s husband clearly thinks the same, refusing to give her money for food and clothes for herself and her children when she began to resist his demands for sex. He was only doing what societyenabled. As the lawyer Indira Jaising says, by accepting that marriage presumes consent, we have “legitimised an act of violence associated with sex”. The logic of men like Bhagwati’s husband is crude: sex is the price of food and shelter. Neha, a former school teacher from Lucknow, says her husband told her point blank that he had spent money to marry her and thus had every right to sex.She recalled in detail her horrifying wedding night, when her husband had sex with her seven times, leaving her crying in excruciating pain and unable to move. “It could be any time of the day, anyone could be in the house, I could be menstruating, it didn’t matter to him,” she says. “He would use abusive words, kick me, make me perform oral sex. And if I refused he would hit me. If I screamed he would tell people I was mad.” Neha tried talking to her parents. Their advice was for her to adjust to her new home. Her husband drank daily and the violence escalated to the point where he began harassing her outside the school where she worked. She had to leave her job. Like Anita, Neha too talks about the lack of love and affection in her marriage. “It was rape,” she says, “not a relationship.” As of now, her complaint is being heard by their gurudwara, as her family is too scared to seek legal redress. “He’s richer and more powerful than me. Will the police listen to me, a lone woman? How will I fight him?”‘I was so scared of my husband, and hated myself so much that I tried to kill myself ’Anita, 28 | Unnao, UP | DivorcedThis feeling of inadequacy, of utter helplessness is all too familiar to any woman who has faced or continues to face abuse. There is nowhere to turn. Not to family, for whom the stigma of a broken marriage appears to override all other concerns. Which is why, the most common advice given to women is to adjust. When Bhagwati began to attend Jagori’s meetings, and began to stand up for herself, her family was appalled. Relatives tried to talk her down from her ‘rebellion’. Please your husband, they told her. Learn to live with him, to make the peace. “When I would refuse,” she says, “they would get so angry, they would tell my husband to beat me more.”Age, social standing, none of it seems to matter. Kameshwari, for instance, is a 60-year-old woman from a village near Aelur, Andhra Pradesh. For years she was raped and beaten by her husband who branded her an unfit, sexually unsatisfying wife. She’s finally ready to leave her 65-year-old abusive husband but her octogenarian mother won’t hear of it. She is dead against the breaking up of a marriage.If overbearing, controlling family isn’t enough, when women do summon the courage to leave, or to complain about their husband’s abuse they also need to deal with the police. Indian police is notorious for its callousness towards sexual complaints of any nature. The women of Madanpur Khadar talk about the contempt with which the police treat married women who complain of abuse, either siding with their husbands or calling them to the police station alone and keeping them there well into the night. Neha, from Lucknow, says she went to the police a two years ago. “They shooed me away. They told me to stay at home with my husband like good women are supposed to.” Several victims of domestic abuse in Delhi said how hard it was to even get their complaint registered. When TEHELKA spoke to Suman Nalwa, the Deputy Commissioner of the Crime Against Women Cell in Delhi, she denied any knowledge of the police not registering complaints of sexual abuse. When asked why she thought women were hesitant to approach the police, she said, “I don’t know, you’ll have to ask them.”‘I bled for days after my husband raped me, and my in-laws thought I had gotten pregnant by another man. My children would go hungry and thirsty if I would say no to my husband’Jaya, 28 | Lucknow | SeparatedThe uncaring attitudes of the police, of family members, are for abused women confirmations of their worthlessness. In other words, they are a continuation of the abuse begun by their spouses. In an abusive marriage, the victim’s vulnerabilities are preyed upon. Beyond sex, many say, their husbands could barely bring themselves to acknowledge their wives’ existence. They were, they say, to their husbands less than human. To talk of rape and sexual abuse in the context of a marriage challenges the culture’s notions of how marriages should function, challenges the sanctity granted to the institution, challenges the accepted gender roles — aggressive masculinity that validates itself by asserting dominance and passive femininity that seeks to keep the peace.Dr Harish Shetty, a Mumbai-based psychologist, points out that children internalise these codes, these so-called traditional family values. They see how their mothers rarely get angry at their fathers. It is women, he says, who bear the burden of negotiating peace, who grow up being taught to please everyone and say sorry. Their sons learn that to be a woman means to be submissive.“When our traditions dictate that satisfying her husband sexually is a wife’s duty, then we’re fighting against a widespread and entrenched mentality,” explains Sandhya Rani Valluripalli, one of Hyderabad’s doughtiest women’s rights activists. “Women are supposed to conform to the notion of bearing and honouring their husband’s name. Where is the space for a woman to talk about or understand sexuality? To express her needs? The public will turn on a woman who does so.” There does seem to be an extreme cultural hostility to and discomfort with women’s sexuality in contemporaryIndia. Women are not supposed to be the initiators of sex, nor are they supposed to desire it. If they do, there is something wrong with them.‘When I stood up to my husband, my family told me to just listen to him and keep him happy’Bhagwati, 39 | New Delhi | She and her husband have been living in the same house but different rooms for six years“We are taught from before marriage that sex is a duty you have to perform for your husband,” says Bhagwati, “that’s why there is no question of them asking for our consent.” Most women TEHELKA spoke to for this article knew what they wanted from their marriages. They universally wanted their husbands to talk to them, to show some affection, to understand their needs. They wanted pleasure from sex, something most said they had known only rarely. “My husband never even kissed me,” says Neha. Fareeda, a volunteer at Jagori, like Bhagwati, says her work with the NGO’s support groups helped her understand that women too deserved pleasure from sex. “Jis cheez se auraton ko itna anand mil sakt hai, usko itna ganda kar diya hai (men have ruined something that could give so much pleasure to women),” she says, to loud agreement from the other women in the group. “A woman’s problems,” she adds, “start from and end in bed.” Fareeda has even managed to make her husband see the light. Sort of. He used to stop eating just to make her feel guilty on days she refused him sex. Now, she says, he is slowly coming to terms with the notion of consent.When couples meet with Dr Shetty, one of the most important things he says he does is to get them talking to each other about their sexual needs. “Most men rarely even kiss their wives,” he says. Little things help enormously. Getting men to walk alongside their wives, for instance, rather than ahead of them. Dr Shetty advises men to hold their wives close, to kiss them unexpectedly, to try to give them joy. It’s his attempt to chip away, however slightly, at the masculine edifice.Outside Dr Shetty’s office, though, sexual pleasure is still very much a male prerogative. Vineeta, a 32-year-old government employee from Lucknow, got married three years ago. Though the sex was mostly forced, there were rare occasions when she did feel some pleasure. But if she were to ever express that pleasure, her husband would become incensed and even suspicious. “What kind of relationship was it that I was too scared to feel pleasure in sex?” And if she were to say no to sex, he would say that another man must have just sated her – “tum kisi aur se bhari hui ho”. While riding pillion on his scooter, if her head moved in any direction away from his shoulder, he would scream at her publicly to stop looking at men on the street.He beat her and raped her with increasingly regularity. According to Vineeta, her husband would “hit me and then ask me whether that hurt a little or a lot.” Typically, he would taunt her, tell her that she was “too dark or too old and not worthy of his love.” It was her brother who finally brought Vineeta to AALI. She has now filed a civil suit under the DV Act, but wishes there was some way her husband could face criminal charges for what he did to her.‘My husband admitted openly that he rapes me. He said it to humiliate me. The last time we fought, he pushed a wooden toy inside me and broke my skull’Prabha, 40 | Lucknow | SeparatedAs in Vineeta’s case, sexual abuse is not just immediate physical violence but systematic mental abuse and psychological coercion. Women will routinely be told that they are not good enough in bed, not beautiful enough, not good at their chores, not worth anything. Threats will be directed at children. “If a woman says no to sex, the husband can refuse to feed and clothe their children,” says Flavia Agnes. “What will she do if there is no food on the table and no money to pay the children’s school fees?” Breaking down your wife, making her completely dependent on you, is a classic tactic of abusive husbands. In India, it is a tactic that is helped by social sanction, by the veneration of the marriage bond.Which is why, women in India don’t talk about abuse in a marriage. For every woman who has spoken up, there are countless others who have stayed mute. They are scared of a broken marriage, of what people might say, of becoming destitute. Many are dependent on their husbands for financial security. They have no place to go, no way to provide for themselves and their children. Their own families won’t take them back. Many times, women who approach activists for help end up going back to their husbands. Sruthi, for instance, a working-class Dalit woman from Bengaluru, went to the police to register a case against her in-laws for extorting money. She used this to force her husband to reduce the physical and sexual violence to which he had subjected her throughout their marriage. Within a month, she went back to him. As Dr Shetty observes, an abusive husband is better than an absent one.In his experience, Dr Shetty says he has found that women in India do not know how to live alone. They have never learnt to. Most often, they want to preserve the sanctity of their marriage. If they do try to live by themselves, they are viewed as sex objects, accessible and always available. A woman who has left her husband becomes incredibly vulnerable. “It’s a man’s world,” says Anita, explaining why she prefers the civil remedy of the DV Act, rather than pressing criminal charges against her husband. “He may go to jail, but people will point fingers at me. They’ll twist things to make it my fault.”This is a problem present across class boundaries. “Working class women still fight,” claims Madhu, a counsellor with Jagori, “but women in the upper middle classes clam up. For them it’s a matter of honour, social status, and wealth. It’s surprising. One would think, with their education, they would be more enlightened about women’s rights.” Renu Mishra, the Lucknow Programme Manager for AALI, told TEHELKA she had dealt with a woman in 2003, an educated upper middle class woman who had been sexually abused throughout her married life and never said a thing. She hadn’t even known it was abuse, submitting to her husband’s appetite because she didn’t want to make a fuss.‘My husband said it’s not a big deal for a woman to be hit by her husband. He would beat me and say that only he had a right to my body. If I ever got pleasure out of sex he would get suspicious and angry with me’Vineeta, 32 | Lucknow | SeparatedOf course, this is not true of all upper middle class women, just as the example of a Dalit woman is not true for all Dalits. The Mumbai-based sexologist, Dr Mahinder Watsa, for instance, insists that the well-to-do women he meets are assertive and expressive about their rights, that they expect to be treated as equal partners. As women make more money, he argues, they are less willing to put up with a husband’s abuse. He acknowledges, though, that even in his circles, including diplomats and wealthy businessmen, he has seen and heard of wife-beating and sexual abuse.For lawyers like Agnes, and Madhu Mehra, executive director for Partners for Law and Development, the pervasive nature of sex abuse make them wary of including marital rape within the rape laws. It would privilege the single act of penetration above all other forms of sex abuse. In Agnes’s experience, women seek protection, security and compensation, which are provided under the DV Act. She finds the Act an impressive piece of civil legislation. The provisions, and protection orders, were not there under the IPC and the DV Act includes sexual abuse (along with physical, verbal, emotional and economic abuse) among the forms of abuse perpetrated in a marriage.This helps women who do not want to talk about sexual abuse alone, says Agnes. Especially in a system in which “even Supreme Court judges make callous and unsubstantiated comments such as S498A is a ‘terrorist law’ through which women hold their husbands to ransom.” (S498A being a criminal law pertaining to cruelty to a woman in marriage.) Lawyers, Agnes says, often have to tone down accounts of sexual abuse in order for the judge to take the petition seriously. Civil remedies provide women with the recourse and protection they need. Still, some want at least the option of being able to file criminal charges. C, a transgender man from Tamil Nadu, was raped by his husband before he came out as a trans male. It took him 18 months to be able to leave the marriage. Today, he is vocal against marital rape, and says that if it were part of the rape laws he would file case against his former husband.‘My husband would rape me, threaten to divorce me, and then sleep in another bed, so that people would think he wasn’t having sex with me’Radha, 25 | New Delhi | SeparatedIn the end, though, both genders are implicated in marital rape (to varying degrees, of course): the men who think they are entitled to a woman’s body and who raise their sons to think so; the women who help perpetuate gender imbalance — the mothers who refuse to help their daughters, the mothers-in-law who view their daughters-in-law with suspicion and hostility, who further aggravate their sons against their wives. These may appear soap opera stereotypes but in conversation with survivors of marital rape, many held up. According to Harish Sadani, a Mumbai-based activist working with Men Against Violence and Abuse (MAVA), the problem is rooted in how our culture has shaped masculinity.He cites a 2012 UNICEF Global Report Card on Adolescents which shows that 57 percent of Indian boys and 53 percent of Indian girls, between the ages of 15 to 19, find nothing wrong in a wife being beaten if she hasn’t cooked the food well, answers back, fails to inform her husband before leaving the house, neglects the children, or refuses her husband’s demands for sex. There is also the 2011 study by the International Center for Research on Women, a Washington-based non-profit, which revealed that one in every five Indian men surveyed admitted to forcing their wives into sex. In his years working with young men, Sadani has seen how notions of machismo become inculcated from an early age. The movies they watch, the music they listen to, the power equations in their own homes, all combine to persuade them that they have “a license to sex” as young man once told Sadani.He does not, despite this, seek easy answers by blaming pop culture alone. There is no space, he says, for boys to talk about sexuality to counter all that they see and hear. Just as women have no space to talk about their desires, men have no space to understand sex as mutual pleasure and satisfaction for both parties. Sexual violence is not just a women’s issue, it is gender issue, where each generation keeps perpetrating the same vicious cycle. Masculinity dictates that men don’t talk about issues of sex, unless they’re bragging. Alcohol is set up as a demon, causing men to rape both strangers and their wives. But alcoholic rage is only symptomatic of the aggression towards women that men grow up with. “We need to help boys evolve a gender-equitable definition of masculinity,” says Sadani. “Sadly, most feminists I’ve come across don’t want to include men in their work.”With MAVA, Sadani runs premarital guidance workshops, where men talk about sex without immediately being labelled as abusers. Many times, this talking helps them sort out their aggression towards their partners. The sort of aggression that leads to a man forcing his wife to have sex with him so many times, and so roughly, that she bleeds for days on end, as was the case with Jaya, a domestic worker in Lucknow. The ingrained violence towards women that made her husband threaten to break her limbs off when she resisted. The suspicion with which society views women that leads her in-laws to think that Jaya’s bleeding was the result of her sleeping with another man. The violence that left Prabha, a cook from Lucknow, with horrific injuries after her husband inserted a wooden toy into her vagina and then bashed her head in. Or lead Smita, another Madanpur Khadar resident, to attempt suicide after countless rapes and beatings during which he would hit her, scratch her, tear her clothes off, even when she was pregnant. Her mother-in-law knew all this but did nothing.“Where there isn’t aggression, there is an apathy towards women and their sexuality,” says writer Mridula Garg, who wrote about marital sex abuse in her story Tuk. The story is told in the first person about a woman deeply in love with her husband who uses her for sex and rapes her one evening after losing at bridge. “Indian men” Garg says, “don’t know and don’t care about a woman’s satisfaction.” This disregard extends to her well-being, her diet, her likes and dislikes. Garg and Dr Shetty both point out the inability of many men to deal with a woman who has an independent mind. To deal with her husband’s inferiority, to keep him happy, even a high-earning, confident-seeming upper middle class woman will revert to the pliant type when the husband has senior colleague over for dinner.Our unwillingness to criminalise marital rape should force us to ask questions about what marriage means in our society. What are these traditional family values that the Parliamentary Standing Committee is so afraid will weaken were husbands who rape their wives sent to prison? Is the state really so intent on preserving an outmoded, irrelevant male dominance? And if the Indian marriage is so resistant to change, so indifferent to female sexuality, so ungenerous and inequitable, is it worth saving? If traditional values mean men continue to have it all their own way, expect those values to soon be discarded on the dustheap of an unbecoming [email protected](Published in Tehelka Magazine, Volume 10 Issue 45, Dated 9 November 2013)..............................................................

It's really sad that by the end of Book 7 we learned that Harry was no "great wizard." or really even a hero at all. He was just a naïve boy/teenager brainwashed and manipulated by Dumbles into suicide for a cause. It proved no different than any other child brainwashed and manipulated by religious extremists (almost always Islamic) into strapping explosives to themselves and blowing themselves up along with "the enemy." After all, in those adults' minds, it too is for "the greater good." I hope you'll excuse my extreme disgust with any adults using children in a war and knowingly setting them up to die. It's an ultimate evil to use a child like that, no matter what the cause or reasons may be, and it DEFINITELY makes Dumbles every bit as much a monster as Voldy.OotP, Chapter 37, Dumbles to Harry:"Five years ago you arrived at Hogwarts, Harry, safe and whole, as I had planned and intended, well - not quite whole. You had suffered. I knew you would when I left you on your aunt's and uncle's doorstep. I knew I was condemning you to ten dark and difficult years."HBP, Chapter 3, Dumbles to the Dursleys:"He has known nothing but neglect and often cruelty at your hands.""The magic I evoked fifteen years ago means that Harry has powerful protection while he can still call this house 'home'. However miserable he has been here, however unwelcome, however badly treated, you have at least, grudgingly, allowed him houseroom."What Dumbles did was no different than kidnapping an African-American infant and forcing the poor child onto a family of Ku Klux Klan supporters with a threat to provide the child a home. Harry received the same treatment you'd expect for that poor child assuming (s)he wasn't killed outright, don't you think? Sure, he survived, but as nothing more than a horribly abused slave of the Dursleys. It was stated clearly that Harry's abuse was physical as well as mental and emotional. There was mention of Petunia striking him over the head with a hot frying pan in the kitchen as well as Vernon's comment about nothing being impossible to 'beat' out of the "freak." implying that beatings were common. Then of course they also encouraged Dudley's 'Harry hunting' and attacks on the "freak."Dumbles could've done something to ensure that Harry's childhood wasn't dark and difficult but instead chose not to and, in so doing, he proved that 'dark and difficult' childhood was, in fact, precisely what he really wanted Harry to suffer through. The Wizarding World is full of spells and potions compelling particular behavior. It would've definitely been preferable and much happier for both Harry and the Dursleys if Dumbles had at the least used a Compulsion Ward or Charm to ensure Harry was at least accepted, if not loved, by the Dursleys. After all, his living with them was deemed by Dumbles to be necessary regardless of them clearly not wanting Harry. Thus he proved, by forcing Harry upon them, that they lacked any real free-will in the matter; that what they wanted was unimportant, anyway, in the much greater need for Harry's safety. (Dumbles's Howler to Petunia, "REMEMBER MY LAST!" when the Dursleys were about to throw Harry out along with prior statements scattered throughout earlier books proved that Harry's residence with the Dursleys was coerced upon the Dursleys in some way by Dumbles). So why then didn't he take the added step to ensure Harry grew up well, since the Dursleys' free-will didn't matter to him anyway? In fact, his coercion absolutely ensured the Dursleys would take out their resentment and hatred upon Harry. It was abundantly clear that he fully intended Harry's suffering through an abusive and enslaved childhood because he needed the boy (and prophesied weapon) meek, weak, and fully obedient to easy control by adults.After all, Dumbles fully admits that he knowingly subjected Harry to more than a decade of abuse and enslavement by his relatives with no such effort to ensure Harry's well-being. Is it any wonder that Harry trashed the old bastard's office afterwards (and I don't blame him)? It might be confusing to some, how later, Harry did a 180 and was again "Dumbles's man" despite the evil Dumbles knowingly inflicted upon him. But all that was needed to fully regain and seal Harry's loyalty was Dumbles paralyzing and forcing Harry into watching the old bastard intentionally martyr himself. He was dying already, but was careful not to tell Harry that. He made Harry believe that he sacrificed himself to protect Harry and thus forever sealed Harry's zealous loyalty. It's a tactic called "martyrdom" and it's been used to seal complete and zealous loyalty to a cause or person very successfully for more than a thousand years by cultists and also historically by Islamists. It was also the very fate he had planned for Harry - to die as a martyr.I strongly encourage everyone to read up on the subjects of brainwashing children, the effects of neglect and abuse on a child's personality, and also children brought up in cults with figures and followings (such as Dumbles was in the Wizarding World). Only then could you truly understand how horrific of a monster Dumbles really was in not only what he did to Harry, but also how he used his position as Headmaster of the premier wizarding school in Britain to ensure generations of children's (and later adults') awe of him and belief in his apparent goodness and infallibility. That belief allowed him to do virtually whatever he wanted under the Sun (ignoring laws at whim and even enslaving the infant hero of the Wizarding World to hateful and abusive Muggles) with little or no question from anyone. The only one who would've questioned Harry's placement was conveniently thrown in prison without a trial by Crouch Senior of the DMLE and Bagnold of the Ministry, with the ASSISTANCE of Dumbles as the Chief Warlock. He admitted that he gave the DMLE, "evidence that Sirius Black was the Potter's Secret-Keeper." to ensure Sirius was sent to Azkaban. This is interesting since any such evidence would have to've been fabricated or exaggerated by Dumbles since, not only was Sirius NOT the Secret-Keeper, but according to the canon, Dumbles himself actually cast the charm to 'hide' the Potters. It was later revealed that it was the 'Fidelius Charm' that hid the Potters, so Dumbles would've most definitely known who was the real Secret-Keeper. It's a very stupid and very corrupt judge that sends people off to life-imprisonment and torture (Dementors are torture) without a trial. It was awfully convenient that the ONLY suspected Death Eater that was mentioned to've been sent to Azkaban without a trial just so happened to be the legal guardian of Harry Potter and Dumbles's only obstacle to control of the prophesied weapon. Especially when known and confirmed Death Eaters walked away free and were cleared without effort by Dumbles to ensure justice for them either.Also, particularly take note of the effect and effectiveness of isolating a child that's been exposed to extreme trauma - limiting their access only to an environment of people who hate and abuse them with the sole outside "friendly" contact and source of information being the one person who wants to control them. He ordered Hermione to cut off all contact for "security" reasons but there was NO reason whatsoever Hermione couldn't've remained in contact via phone or Muggle mail or that the Order guards couldn't've passed messages on for him at Grimmauld Place - EXCEPT that it would've given Harry other people he could trust and rely upon in his time of need. Dumbles couldn't have that. He needed complete control over Harry and so he blocked Harry from ALL other outside "friendly" influence except his own when Harry needed Hermione most in order to keep Harry dependent on him.In essence all of this proved Dumbles to be much like a Wizarding World equivalent of Charles Manson (a complete fucking nutjob, if you ask me) or perhaps closer to being like Jim Jones (another complete fucking nutjob) with a touch of mafia behavior in ensuring obstacles to his plans are "out of the way." The sole difference being that instead of getting his followers to murder for him like Charles Manson and Voldy had done, Dumbles instead got them to die for him and his cause like Jim Jones. Harry and so many others essentially committed suicide at Dumbles's mere "asking". Anyone up for some Kool-Aid? Do you deny that Dumbles could've convinced a significant number of people in the Wizarding World (especially many of the children) to drink? (If you're not familiar with the reference, google "Jonestown" and brace yourself should you choose to view any of the images, because trust me, they're fucking sick and I hope Jones is burning in Hell).This old coot would be dumb enough to think The Devil himself deserves infinite second chances. You know The Devil, right? Formerly Samael, The Light Bringer and Son of the Bright Morning Star. Wisest, most beautiful, highest ranking, and most powerful of all the Angelic Host. The High Seraphim who stood at the left-hand side of God's golden throne, and was the third highest ranking authority in Heaven.Later stripped of his place among the Angelic Host, given the name of Lucifer, and cast down to Earth with the Sons of Darkness, the fallen angels who followed him in rebellion. Who then tempted Adam and Eve to eat a piece of the Forbidden Fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and led to their committing the Original Sin and tainting the bloodline of humanity.And finally by his name as The Enemy, Satan, The Devil, who is the source of all evil in existence. I bet that old crackpot fool would think that The Devil might still have good in him, that he could reach Samael, and that he deserves, as I said before, "infinite second chances."BOTH Dumbles and Voldy fought what's called a "proxy war" where they used others (cultish followers mostly, though, in Harry's case, he was simply a kidnapped and brainwashed child) to fight and die for them. BOTH of them manipulated, used and endangered, or outright sacrificed the lives of others, often innocents and children - without those people's knowledge or informed consent. Just because one's ends may be deemed noble doesn't mean that such evil methods are acceptable to reach those ends. Why is it to be any more tolerated for Dumbles and the "Light" to commit such atrocities than the "Dark" that're doing it? In fact, Dumbles always hypocritically used that very argument to discourage anyone from using lethal force against the Death Eaters, but yet all of his own actions and intentional inaction proved equally vile and evil in result, if not intent. It was the philosopher, Nietzsche, who said, "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that, in the process, he does not become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you." Knowingly enslaving an innocent one-year-old infant to fifteen years of hatred and cruelty as a means of shaping that child's personality for easier influence and control is but only the tip of the proverbial iceberg. How about discouraging his followers from properly defending themselves but rather instead let the enemy kill them? His complete insistence upon stunning and releasing torturers, murderers, rapists, and terrorists only allowed them to be revived or released to later go off to torture and kill someone else. Something that's far more evil than putting down the rabid cat for what it is before it could hurt someone else. Note how the Malfoys among others were walking free at the end of DH despite the murders and tortures they'd done. How many others've since then likely been tortured and killed by them in the intervening nineteen years before the epilogue? Dumbles operated under the premise that the lives and well-being of everyone else, particularly future victims, are unimportant compared to his belief in giving infinite second chances of redemption to murderers, torturers, rapists, and terrorists, who're all people who don't at all desire or want redemption and repentance. (As I said before, the old man's so far gone he'd think that The Devil, the source of all evil in existence, deserves infinite second chances, like he (Dumbles) thinks he knows better than God himself). Many good people died unnecessarily all thanks to Dumbles's cult of personality.I think the most telling difference between Dumbles and Voldy though, was that Ol' No Nose's followers had the choice whether or not to serve him. Dumbles, on the other hand, kidnapped an infant boy and then conditioned (brainwashed) him through years of slavery and abuse followed by manipulation into suicide for Dumbles's cause. In other words, Moldyshort's followers had a choice while Dumblefuck enslaved innocent children into his service. You can't get much more vile and despicable than that. Ultimately Harry Potter was nothing more than a poor kid that was kidnapped and brainwashed by the "good guys" into being a suicide bomber. (I'd compare Harry to Jason Bourne, but Harry had absolutely no choice in the matter and no special training or preparation beyond the brainwashing to die for everyone else).By the end of DH there's a huge amount of suffering, blood, and death on Dumbles's hands (as much as or even more than on Voldy's and his Death Eaters') for his usage of others and refusal to use his own power (magical and political) to truly stop any of them from harming or killing others. It's a lot like a cop that chooses to stand by and merely watch while a scumbag guy rapes and murders an eight-year-old girl - refusing to help for whatever his own personal reasons. Who's the bigger monster? The sick fuck doing the raping and murder or the person who's taken on the title, position, and responsibility - trusted by all to protect the victim - but instead refuses to do so as the girl's raped and murdered without a care? Dumbles even went so far as to not only protect such monsters from being rightfully killed in self-defense or justice, but even worse invited such monsters into a school full of children. Equally as horrific was knowingly enslaving children to hateful monsters as a means of brainwashing and control. Not just the Dursleys, but also Snape. Ask yourselves about the "coincidence" of the only long-term Professor being outright abusive of Harry who just so happened to be "promoted" to teaching Harry's best magical subject the year Harry would've left his influence in Potions class because he failed to meet the minimum grade Snivellus required. It was blatantly clear that Dumbles used Snivellus to keep Harry abused and beaten down while at Hogwarts and away from the Dursleys' abuse. Harry was never given a reprieve from the bullying and abuse because that's what Dumbles wanted and needed in order to shape him into a martyr who believed his own life had no value and was better to sacrifice for others more deserving of life and happiness.That's what disappointed me most about the canon. Ultimately, Harry was revealed to've never been a hero at all. Instead he was nothing more than a severely used and abused victim, kidnapped as an infant from his legal guardian and brainwashed into his role of suicide for Dumbles's cause. Those who read the books should heed its hidden warnings against adults in positions of authority over children exploiting children for their own purposes and ideals and the use of children in wars by adults.I think the excuse of, "Dumbledore, who has made some bad mistakes, is doing his best to rectify them.", is just a cheap cop-out/get-out-of-jail-free card for the old man. He made dumb mistakes and how he tries to rectify them, he does a pretty piss-poor job at that. When given the opportunity to fix all his mistakes, he just uses that as an open door to make the same damn mistakes all over again, or make new ones as well. He clearly makes the dumbest decisions I think a human being could make, my new girlfriend even wonders if he's just flat-out stupid.In First Year, he decides to hide the Stone in a school full of children knowing that a homicidal maniac and terrorist is after it. Why doesn't he just shoot fireworks up in the air to spell out, 'THE STONE IS HERE, VOLDEMORT.'? Next, he has the Stone guarded by a giant, killer three-headed dog that could get loose and kill somebody. I won't take the excuse that he's harmless, he nearly took Harry's and Hermione's heads off when he tried to bite them. Yeah, really harmless there. He then literally decides to go into detail about the third floor corridor, knowingly enticing students to check it out instead of not saying anything that'd peak their curiosity. But instead, he's literally almost baiting kids to go there. The only thing between a curious student and Fluffy, was a locked door, which Hermione or any other First Year, with barely a month of being at school, was/would be able to open! The old, bearded dumbass made the oldest, stupidest mistake in the book. From what Holly's sister and brother-in-law told Holly and I about their reactions to the old man's sheer stupidity is that: Tell a whole school of children not to go somewhere, and most, if not all, of them will/would, just to find out why they shouldn't! Next, he says that the Forbidden Forest is also off-limits, yet has Harry, Hermione, and Neville go in there for detention (I don't care about Malfoy, since he could've been gutted like a fish by a Werewolf and I wouldn't care). Well, why don't you just blindfold them and have them walk head-first into a minefield while you're at it, you idiot? And finally, the very clever Dumbles has the Stone guarded by traps that're so pathetically simple that a pair of First Years were able to navigate through them, no problem. He should've placed a Fidelius Charm on the Stone and made himself the Secret-Keeper to make sure it was completely safe.Dumbles, to me, has got the IQ of a chicken club. Dumbles is the worst mentor in fiction since he did the absolutely dumbest things and made the stupidest decisions ever that Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon, Yoda, Gandalf, Zordon, Professor X, Might Guy, Uncle Ben, Alfred, and Odin would only be able to roll their eyes (eye in Odin's case) in annoyance at the old man's sheer stupidity, and all would probably commit suicide at how dumb Dumbles is. I'm just saying this, I hate Dumbles and there are absolutely NO redeeming qualities about him. Everything about him just makes me hate him and roll my eyes at how somebody who's supposedly said to be so "old, wise, clever, smart, and brilliant" trips over himself and falls over on his ass like a drunk guy in a bar. He was a horrible, dumbass mentor when we first saw him in Philosopher's Stone (I'm American), and he was a horrible, dumbass mentor when we last saw him in Deathly Hallows.The Old Brainless Bearded Wonder Blunder One is always spouting, "It is for the Greater Good." But is always working to ensure that the Dark families benefit. The old man wasn't doing, as many people claim he was, "more harm than good." Instead, he was doing, as I like to perfectly claim and say it was, "All harm and no good." with his actions.Fuck Jo with her saying that, "Dumbledore is the epitome of good." No 'good' man with 'good' intentions would EVER stoop down to even half as far down to that level, nor commit even half of those evil, monstrous actions and decisions without even so much as batting an eye or vomiting for hours on end and feeling sick on the inside, as well as filthy on the outside and knowing that no amount of bathing in existence would EVER make them feel clean or like a human being ever again. They'd know that nobody, not even God himself, would forgive them, and that Hell was no less than they deserved, as they more than anything understood that they deserved to rot and burn in the fiery, brimstone pits of Satan's domain of damnation for eternity for their sins against others. As the saying goes, "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions."Next in Second Year, he decides not to close the school despite the great danger that the students are in. Whoopdie doo all five of the victims are only petrified, it's not like anyone got killed this time. Um, so he's keeping the school open and only riding on that idea? What happens when the kids, especially even the Pure-Bloods, start getting killed because Tommy boy shows how unstable he is since he kills like he's giving out free samples?What about the Basilisk? Dumblefuck was around the first time the Chamber was opened and it was released onto the student population of the school. That was in the forties, fifty years prior to CoS...surely in such a time he could've made sure that it'd never happen again! With the fifty years of time that Dumblefuck had at his disposal, you would've thought that, as one of the 'supposed' wisest and brightest users of magic in the history of Wizardkind, that the brainless, bearded pedophile would've been able to deduce and find out the identity of Slytherin's Monster, and would've killed the Basilisk to put an end to all of its terror. But, once again, HE. DID. NOTHING. It was only through sheer, pure luck that Harry survived in the first place and lived to tell Hermione the tale.Dumbledork will be responsible for hundreds of students getting killed because he didn't listen to rhyme or reason and got hundreds of dead students now with hundreds of pissed off parents wanting to rip him a new one.Next in Third Year, he doesn't decide to chase the Dementors off the campus grounds and instead lets dozens of students get attacked by the wraiths and get forced to experience their greatest fears and nightmares. And I don't care about the excuse of, "He warned the students." It was only a way to cover his ass, so if something happened, he could make it seem like it was the student's/students' fault(s).Demonic, wraith-like creatures that guard Azkaban Prison, one of, if not, the WORST Wizarding prison(s) in the Wizarding World DON'T belong anywhere near a school full of children! Ol' Dumbass Dumblefuck is lucky that none of the students died or were killed by the Dementors that were stationed on the castle grounds, just waiting to suck any student's/students' soul(s) out after torturing them by making them relive their deepest, darkest memories, fears, and nightmares! And, once again, HE...DID...NOTHING!Next in Fourth Year, he decides to just let Harry compete in a deadly, life-threatening Hunger Games style sport for amusement, despite the fact that he's underage and doesn't have the skills. Instead of just, you know, getting him out of it. Not content with allowing every single child in the dumb, bearded bastard's care to be endangered, he then brings back the Triwizard Tournament that's killed almost all of its competitors in the past.Why the HELL didn't he water down the Tasks to take into account Harry's age, hell, the ages of the other three Champions (Fleur, Cedric, and Krum, actually, I don't give a fuck about that Communist, Krum, (due to the fact that TO ME Harry took Hermione as his date to the Yule Ball), and I DON'T give a FUCK what Jo says)?! Facing full-grown, nesting mother Dragons?! Would that dumb, bearded old idiot normally send Hogwarts students out to do that in the wild?! Then...he had the audacity to have Hermione (whom Harry would miss most, and, AGAIN, I DON'T give a SHIT what the fuck Jo says), chained to the bottom of the Black Lake, to act as a hostage! Dumb-as-a-motherfucker had NO MONITORING of her at all! Anything could've happened to her at the bottom of the lake! And he wouldn't've known AT ALL what the HELL was happening to Harry's best friend during the Task!He also hired a terrorist that he was dumb enough to believe was an old friend of his. He also didn't even bother, give a damn, and/or even try to figure how Harry's name was put into and came out of the Goblet, as well as who put Harry's name into said Goblet to begin with. He just did nothing, sat on his wrinkled, old ass, sucked on his lemon drops, and jerked-off thinking about Grindelwald naked or going down on him and sucking his dick.Finally, after Cedric is murdered right in front of Harry, he (Harry) sees the one (Ol' No Nose) who killed his parents and tried to do the same to himself. Harry suffers torture and injury, but manages to, not only escape, but also brings Cedric's body back with him to the school. What does the dumb, bearded, evil Master Manipulator do, you might ask? He sends Harry off to the Dursleys'...who beat him, starve him, and abuse him! Not a word from Ol' Dumblefuck to poor Harry for over a month, all while the poor kid has PTSD and is getting the shit beaten outta him. All the events that Harry went through were traumatic; no ifs, ands, or buts about it. Harry needed Hermione (his best friend) and concerned adults around him to come to grips with what he'd seen. Dumb-as-shit Dumblefuck did nothing more than pat Harry on the head before exiling the poor kid to Durskaban to be beaten, abused, and tortured.Next in Fifth Year, he avoided Harry like he was the plague and made him think his best and closest friend, Hermione, had forgotten about him and didn't wanna talk to him even though he had PTSD and needed the support. He also sent Harry to take classes with Snivellus where he would have his mind invaded for The Greaseball's amusement. And, he decided to FINALLY let Harry know the reason why all of this crazy shit has been happening and tells him that was the reason why he had to experience fourteen years of domestic abuse and possibly was almost killed dozens of times over before then.He also allowed that filth Umbitch to torture almost all of the students at the school (even the 'good' Slytherin students who aren't racist, prejudiced, and bigoted Pure-Blood supremacists like Daphne and Astoria Greengrass as well as Tracy Davis, etc.) with the exception of the racist, prejudiced, and bigoted Pure-Blood supremacist Slytherins who were ALL members of her Inquisitorial Squad. Dumblefuck just sat on his ass and, "DID. NOTHING." when Umbitch singled-out Harry and tortured him through making Harry torture and injure himself by using the Blood Quill for her own sick, twisted, evil amusement.What the FUCK was that dumb fucking old man thinking?! Has he lost all common sense and compassion (although, I KNOW he had neither to begin with)?! Does he even understand people anymore, or did he ever understand people at all to begin with?!As to Harry and PTSD...I think he must've suffered from some form of it at the end of First and Second Years. Following Cedric's death and Voldemort's resurrection in Fourth Year, severe PTSD was obvious to anyone with a functioning brain, leading me to wonder what kind of idiot Dumbles really was to isolate Harry with the Dursleys after such an experience. This impression was reinforced by his treatment of Harry throughout Fifth Year, which was further punctuated by him allowing Umbitch to torture Harry indiscriminately. The miracle of it all was that Harry remained sane. His cordial behavior to Ol' Dumbass Dumblefuck at the beginning of HBP has always seemed unrealistic to me. One doesn't get over such rage, anger, pain, and hurt, aided or unaided, in two short weeks.And finally in Sixth Year, he reveals to Harry that he knew and was aware of Tommy's childhood and gave him the knowledge of magic and allowed him to attend Hogwarts and gave him the tools he needed to become a complete fucking maniac. He could've just kept his mouth shut and stayed out of it, then Tommy wouldn't know and his, still in my eyes weak compared to other villains, powers wouldn't've grown at all. But he also let him return back to the orphanage and allowed the little maniac Hitler and Charles Manson Junior to continue being a nutjob and torture and torment all of the other kids there. So it's all Dumbles's fault, if he was actually a smart human being he would've seen that the kid was trouble from the start and erase his mind and memory of everything that happened since he first used magic as a young kid.Seriously, I would've preferred Harry setting Dumbles's downfall clearly as a duty that should've been done, also Harry revealing all of the old man's dirty laundry and allowing his dirt-covered skeletons to come tumbling outta the closet after he was told the truth by Dumbles himself, as the dumb old man was aware of Tommy's childhood and allowed it to happen, causing the rise of a Dork Lard (Ol' Moldyshorts is nowhere cool enough to deserve that title or even be referred to by said title), and let's not forget what Dumbles was planning with Grindelwald.I personally think that The Old Brainless Bearded Wonder Blunder One isn't at all a good person while Umbitch and Tommy aren't at all the darkest and most evil in the story, but a close second and third, respectively. I say that Dumbles is darker and more evil than both of them, combined!I mean, he selfishly craved power and was a narcissist that only cared about himself. He killed his own sister when she got in the way of him trying to stop his brother from arguing with his "lover".He abandoned a fifteen-month-old baby at the earliest opportunity and left him on a doorstep all night in November and knew he was going to be mistreated, but simply didn't care, because it was, "For the Greater Good." What the hell gives that old man the power, right, and authority to make that call? He's got a God and Messiah Complex, and thinks that he's the only person who can make a call because he's a, "wise, clever, and powerful old Light Wizard" and it's, "My way or Hell's highway."He said that he craved power when he was younger, but doesn't crave it now because it's his greatest weakness and that's why he never wanted to be Minister of Magic. Yet he's the Headmaster of Hogwarts, Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot, and Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards, as well as being the owner of the Elder Wand, and not destroying it because he craved its power for himself. All of that offers him great amounts of power. So, he's a complete hypocrite.And he also hired Snivellus, a mind-raping murderer and terrorist, and allows him to keep teaching at the school despite the fact he mentally, emotionally, physically, and internally harassed, bullied, and demeaned the students. But, Dumbles doesn't care what the man does to students. Hell, he doesn't do jackshit when the evil Snakes (Malfoy and his racist, prejudiced, and bigoted Pure-Blood supremacist Junior Death Eaters, not the "good" Slytherins that consist of Daphne and Astoria Greengrass, as well as Tracy Davis, etc.) commit atrocious actions by bullying, harassing, physically harming, and using magic to harm other students. If he truly did care for the students, he would've never hired the man in the first place, and would've cracked down on the bullying!There's also the fact that he's hiding and protecting a wanted terrorist and the man directly responsible for Tommy murdering James and Lily Potter. It was Snivellus after all who eavesdropped at the door as The Old Brainless Bearded Wonder Blunder One was interviewing for the Divination position in an unsecure room in a bar known for where evil customers hung out. After hearing only half of that supposed prophecy and being thrown out of said bar after being caught, he went running to tell his boss. No, it's all just too convenient.That image of Dumbles in DH was only a part of Harry's subconscious, he wasn't there, but instead, my new girlfriend, Holly, believes so, burning in the pits of Hell.He did a Cain and Abel and he paid for it. Murder is one of the worst sins in existence, and Dumbles committed it, and received his punishment. The punishment fit the crime.He didn't repent for his sins, he never learned from his mistakes, and, when given a second chance, he used it as an open door to do the same sins all over again and commit new ones. I mean, this is the guy who gave infinite second chances to mass murderers, serial killers, rapists, torturers, terrorists, etc.I mean, seriously?! Again, I say this guy, "would be stupid enough to think that The Devil himself deserves infinite second chances." This old coot is so far past senile, they haven't even created the word or term for it yet.I don't know who's mixing this fool's Kool-Aid, or what they're even putting in it. Hell, the bearded old coot's got his head shoved so far up his ass he can taste his food again right after swallowing it.He just thinks he's all-knowing, all-powerful, is the only person who should have all the knowledge, keeps everything to himself and doesn't tell anybody anything, lies, cheats, steals, manipulates, if you don't agree with him then you're Dark, against him, and his enemy. He pushes everybody around and doesn't listen to anybody else's opinions, thinks he's the only one who can make any decision, has a Messiah and God Complex, thinks God himself should descend from Heaven and kneel before him and kiss his shoes, manipulates and uses everyone around him like pawns for his "Greater Good", and is willing to pull an Abraham and sacrifice a human being for his use.I don't care that it was a war and he had to make hard calls in it. He's a teacher, not a military leader and doesn't value the lives of the men and women under him that serve as part of his "cult". The Jedi (Anakin, Obi-Wan, Yoda, Mace Windu, Plo Koon, Kit Fisto, Aayla Secura, Ki-Adi Mundi, etc.) viewed none of their Clone Troopers as expendable. A wise man and leader (Captain America) once told a certain synthezoid (Vision) these words, "We don't trade lives." So, Dumbles is both a terrible mentor and leader.The man could've done so much to've stopped Tommy long before it got to the point it did, but it seems like the prophecy came up, and he fixated on it like a cat on a laser beam light. Why was he meeting at Abe's inn instead of school where it could've been controlled, and he knew it was Snivellus, so why didn't he catch him or Obliviate him, unless he wanted the prophecy to get sent out? Then he sat around on his ass for ten years sucking lemon drops, pretending things were hunky-dory and he knew Tommy would be back. Then, he again does something to Harry, because only he can do what's needed, without letting anyone else know, or even checking up to see if there's anyone else. Dumbles's hubris is insane! I find myself wishing more and more that Harry had spit on him when he was dead, and on his grave as well, but Jo was so determined to bring the monsters back into the Light again, which explains how she bent over backwards to save the old man, along with Snivellus, the Malfoys, etcetera to the point that it makes a whole chunk of the story fall apart. Apart from not making Harmony the OTP of the franchise, but that's a story for another day and time.Dumbles was also nothing but a tyrant and here's a quote from C.S. Lewis that proves my point;"Of all the tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber Barons than under Omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber Baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupididty may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)Dumbles is just a bad guy and that's it; plain and simple. He knowingly sent a baby into an abusive environment, completely abnegated his responsibilities as Chief Warlock and Supreme Mugwump (that's a five day discussion by itself), intentionally set up a young man for a suicidal self-sacrifice without warning or preparing him (Harry with a ridiculous Horcrux inside him), allowed a sadist to abuse his student population (Snivellus), allowed for substandard teaching at Hogwarts (History of Magic, Muggle Studies, Defense Against the Dark Arts (Years 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6), Potions (Years 1-5), and Divination), and routinely failed to protect his students from harm."...Dumbledore will happily betray the innocent in the hopes of saving the guilty." - (Sprinter 1988)And Snape? I don't understand the outpouring of love and respect fans have for what really boils down to a childish, sadistic bully, which he was. Now, I have nothing but respect for the late, great Mr. Alan Rickman; I think the man was an awesome actor and could portray both good and bad characters equally great. His bad characters are amazing; Hans Gruber, The Sheriff of Nottingham, etc.Snivellus is a bad guy; no ifs, ands, or buts about it. One good deed doesn't make a savior. In seven books and eight films, Snivellus was an unmitigated prick and asshole of epic proportions. He's evil on so many levels. First, destroying the careers of who knows how many Potion Masters, Aurors, and Healers. Not to mention any other career that required Potions expertise. His so-called 'teaching style' is one of never-ending bullying and insulting remarks. Only his beloved Slytherins were exempt from his vitriol and abuse, and that's only in public. Who knows what he did behind closed doors in the dungeons. I think a person who has access to the knowledge and ability to make some of the most personally invasive and horrible potions known to Wizardkind should be someone of unparalleled morality and strength of character. Not a petty, self-important, evil prick of a bully who gets his rocks off by abusing children.What kind of damage could Snivellus have done with access to students and their DNA, added to Polyjuice or any other kind of custom made potion?I've had teachers who were assholes before, but the level of abuse Snivellus constantly levels at his students would get his ass fired, if not arrested, in any Mundane school. But not Hogwarts, where he's protected by the Master Manipulator. I wonder if Dumbles would do anything to his precious Potions Master if he murdered someone in the Great Hall during dinner? I mean, more than just Obliviating everyone and vanishing the evidence.The mere fact that one student's greatest fear is this black-hearted Satanic monster should be evidence enough of his evil. It's not funny; it's not something to be laughed at or about. It's something that should be investigated and dealt with. Preferably by giving The Walking Talking Greaseball a nice, slow, merciless killing. Neville's a child who should be more afraid of his parents never getting better and never recognizing him, or his overbearing grandmother who constantly forces him into a role he isn't meant for, just so she can try to make him like his father. When Snivellus surpasses both of those things, something's seriously wrong in that classroom.Second, he can claim to love Lily all he wants, but his behavior is more akin to an obsessive stalker than a lover. If he truly loved Lily, he would've never harmed her by abusing Harry, never. No matter how much he hated James, he saw Lily's eyes everytime he looked at Harry. Every time he mind-raped him during those Occlumency "lessons" he was looking into Lily's eyes.Severus "Snivellus" Snape is a monster, and should never be around children, much less teaching them.So, not only has the Sorting Hat always been correct and never made a mistake, but the Quill of Acceptance and the Book of Admittance as well. Are you kidding me? Can any magical object at that school make a mistake and not be correct, at least for once? For crying out loud, nothing in existence is perfect, infallible, always correct, and never makes mistakes. The only being in existence who is perfect is God himself. No matter what magic can do, it has its limits to what it can do. I see magic as the way it is; an internal energy source with a finite limit that's capable of accomplishing inhuman feats, but it's not infinite at all. This isn't the Force from the Star Wars Expanded Universe, nor is it the Ainu/fallen Ainu/Vala/fallen Vala/Maia/fallen Maia spiritual magic from J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium, which both are confirmed, proven, and stated by their creators (George Lucas and the late, great Mr. J.R.R. Tolkien, respectively) to be infinite, unlimited, and eternal, meaning that they both could do anything and everything.Hell, even Jo herself confirmed, proved, and stated that, in the books and films, magic had a finite limit, and couldn't do anything and everything, and it has its own limitations (i.e. can't conjure food, can't bring back the dead as solid, living flesh, bone, and blood, etc.) to what it can do. Bottom line, I'm not buying that a bunch of objects, much less quasi-sentient enchanted magical objects, can be perfect, infallible, and always correct every single solitary fucking time. I don't care for the excuse of, "Because of magic." because if magic is perfect and infallible, why haven't Harry, Hermione (I'm a Harmonian/Harmony shipper, so sue me), Susan, Daphne, Neville, Colin, Fleur, Luna, Shacklebolt, Flitwick, McGonagall, etcetera marched up to the Pearly Gates of Heaven, blasted them in, marched up to God's golden throne, and made demands of the Almighty. Oh, wait, I'll tell you why, you wanna hear it? Because magic is NOT infinite, nor is it perfect and infallible, it's an internal energy source with a finite limit. I think the idea of making enchanted magical objects, much less quasi-sentient enchanted magical objects, perfect, infallible, always correct, and that don't make mistakes is just boring and goes into straight-up No Limits Fallacy. Only, it goes into stupid No Limits Fallacy, while the NLF of Star Wars and Tolkien's Legendarium actually make sense.I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want that thing going through my thoughts without my permission. It's an invasion of privacy. How the hell could Rowling, the Founders, and the Hogwarts staff think that's okay? None of these kids came to get their privacy violated. How the hell has no student at least complained about that? I asked Holly's fourteen-year-old nephew if he'd want that to happen.He told me that if it happened when he was eleven and had gone to Hogwarts if it was real, and his thoughts were being invaded, then he'd take the Hat off and loudly demand for his parents to come get him, withdraw him, and take him home with all of his course books to be homeschooled."Come to Hogwarts. Do not worry about us using a hat that has no regret or remorse, and invades your privacy and thoughts. After all, we have no regard for the fact that our Headmaster is a manipulative chess master who will play with your lives and will cast you off to the side after your usefulness to him has reached its end, a murdering terrorist who abuses his students if they are not in his House, a bumbling buffoon who has the intelligence of a box of hammers, deals with dangerous creatures that can kill you, and cannot keep a secret to save his or anybody else's life, a Muggle Studies Professor who is not even a Muggle-Born or Half-Blood and knows ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about the Muggle World and we do not offer a Wizard Studies class to help acquaint new students who are Muggle-Borns with our culture and instead we just drop everything onto our students with no regard, a teacher who is a ghost and cannot even teach properly due to the fact that he is all over the place, and a teacher who has a Dark Wizard literally growing out of the back of his head. Also, do not be alarmed that we have students go into the supposed 'Forbidden Forest' that is full of dangerous creatures to serve detention, the staircases that move and can result with you falling to your death, ghosts that phase through walls and bathroom stalls to invade your privacy, a killer three-headed dog that can get loose and kill you all, a sixty-foot-long Basilisk that can kill you with a glare, and the Whomping Willow, which is a giant tree that will attempt to bludgeon and hammer you to death if you accidentally get too close to it. Nothing to worry about here. Hogwarts, perhaps the worst educational facility in comparison to the Jedi Temple and Jedi Praxeum, Xavier's School for the Gifted Youngsters, and Camp Half-Blood."Almost finished. Now, all I need to add is Jo's Stupid Plot Holes with the franchise that really mess it up and make the books and film scripts so full of holes that they looked like they were written on swiss cheese:There's a septillion, but here are some of the ones that really bug me:1) How can Harry have a Horcrux in him when the Blood Protection protected him from Voldy's Killing Curse? The Blood Protection was in place before the soul fragment would've become attached to Harry, ergo, he'd be protected (here's an example: confrontation with Quirrell in Book 1).2) Dumbles. 'nuff said (see above to see the whole rant about that Satanic asswipe).3) Harry's turnabout between the end of Book 5 and beginning of Book 6. The book time difference was only a few weeks (I think about two to two-and-a-half weeks) and yet Harry was 'fine' with Dumbles? No anger, no recriminations, no usual teenage 'stuff'? Bullshit.4) The complete lack of character growth by Harry throughout the franchise. Harry, despite being a pretty good character, never changes despite living through some extraordinary events, his entire life turning upside down and so on. For that matter, none of the characters really change. Thinking of my own teenage years, I was a completely different person at seventeen than I was at eleven.5) Horcruxes in general. For fuck's sake woman, Tolkien sorta did it in The Lord of the Rings, but Sauron was a godly angelic-like spiritual being. He didn't split his soul, he put part of himself into the One Ring. Really Jo? You, woman, are nothing more than a rip-off thief. Tolkien (R.I.P.) must be turning over and spinning in his grave.6) If Snivellus is a, supposed, 'good guy', why'd he sell Vance out to Ol' No Nose (see Snivellus's discussion with Bellatrix and Narcissa in the Spinner's End chapter of HBP)?7) If Basilisk venom destroys Horcruxes, why didn't it destroy the (idiotic) Horcrux in Harry when he was bitten in the Chamber of Secrets? (I've had a lotta people give me shit me about this one. Most've asserted that one must destroy the vessel in order to destroy the Horcrux. Not true. The Diary was damaged, as were all the other Horcruxes. Basilisk venom had damaged Harry to the point of near-death. Ergo, his body was severely damaged. That should've released and destroyed the Horcrux. His subsequent healing by Fawkes is irrelevant).8) If Voldy had his Horcruxes binding his soul to the physical world, why did Quirrell drink Unicorn blood in First Year if Voldy already had protection in place?9) Lily's love for Harry provided protection from the Killing Curse? So Lily was the only parent, or even mother, who died for their child? Bullshit.10) Harry used a Protego Shield Charm to protect the Weasley Matriarch from a Killing Curse? What's that all about? Don't say it was because of the Elder Wand or I'll slap you so hard it'll knock your face off the front of your skull. If it was the Elder Wand's power, wouldn't Dumblefuck have used it to protect himself instead of Fawkes doing a kamikaze in front of Ol' No Nose's Killing Curse to save the old, bearded pedophile?11) Timelines. The timeline from Voldy's attack in Godric's Hollow to Harry being left at Privet Drive is completely fucked. So too is the timeline from Harry's decision to 'rescue' Sirius in the Department of Mysteries to the unfortunate denouement of the book and film. Snivellus's role is extremely suspect.12) Why was the wizard who 'supposedly' defeated Grindelwald unable to stop Snivellus from escaping from the Hog's Head Inn that fateful night of the prophecy being told, but instead sat on his wrinkled, old ass and did nothing about it?13) Am I the only Harry Potter fan in the world that thinks that Slughorn should, at the very least, be punished with any kind of sentence in Azkaban for withholding his knowledge of Tommy's pursuit of Horcruxes from Harry when the latter needed the information?14) The entire timeline of the Post-Godric's Hollow and Pre-Privet Drive encounters of October 31st, 1981:A. Why did it take Hagrid over a full day to bring Harry from the Potter cottage to Privet Drive, especially on Sirius's flying motorcycle, which is pretty fast?B. Why was McGonagall watching over the Dursleys' home at Privet Drive if she was unsure if the Potters had been killed in Godric's Hollow?C. How did the entire wizarding population find out about the downfall of Voldy Moldyshorts? The Potters had been living in a pretty small village under the Fidelius Charm, not in central London, or anything along the lines of that.D. When did Dumbles cast the infamous Blood Wards? He showed up, used the Deluminator, convinced McGonagall leaving Harry with the Dursleys was the correct course of action, and abandoned a fifteen-month-old wounded child on a doorstep in November at the earliest opportunity.15) Harry has a 'connection' to Voldy because of the idiotic Horcrux in his head, right? So why did his vision in the summer prior to Fourth Year begin in Frank's home when Voldy Moldyshorts was in Riddle Manor and unaware of the man, at least before Frank went up to the manor and Nagini informed Ol' No Nose of Frank's presence?16) If 'either must die at the hand of the other, for neither can live while the other survives' then...A. How could the Basilisk kill Harry? Granted, Harry didn't die (obviously), but he nearly did and it's generally accepted in the canon that Harry was saved by Fawkes.B. By that means (dying by the hand of the other), Harry either completed the prophecy in Godric's Hollow or the whole prophecy falls apart. If a person is defined by their soul and not their body, then Harry completed the prophecy in the Chamber of Secrets when he destroyed a piece of Ol' No Nose's soul (Diary). However, how could Hermione (Cup), Neville (Nagini), Dumbles (Ring), Voldy (Harry's scar), Crabbe (Diadem), and Weasley (Locket) destroy the Horcruxes? It doesn't work. The prophecy doesn't make any motherfucking sense, and is all over the fucking place.C. How did Harry kill Ol' Voldy Moldyshorts at the end of DH? The Killing Curse that killed Riddle was cast by the Dark Wizard and was merely reflected back at him (like Harry and Malfoy during GoF), so Voldy didn't 'die at the hand of the other', he died by his own stupid hand.17) Weasley imitated Parseltongue in DH? Really? Stop it. I can see the crazy all over that.18) At the end of OotP when Dumblefuck showed Harry the memory of Trelawney telling the prophecy, it was played uninterrupted. But the original scene was NOT uninterrupted. Remember? During the telling of the prophecy, the door was opened by Abe with Snivellus in hand midway through the prophecy. That should've been included in the memory shown to Harry.19) Stick with me here. Jo's recurring theme is that the Pure-Bloods are wrong, Blood Status and Blood Purity are both irrelevant to magical capability; power or prospect. She shows this repeatedly with Hermione as her primary Champion of Muggle-Borns and Lily Potter in the background providing the same. Yet, when Voldy is brought back, what does he take from Harry? His blood. Then he says something to the effect that now that the Dark Wizard has Harry's blood in him, then the magical protection imbued by Lily is now overcome. Because Riddle's been brought back using Harry Potter's blood, he's transferred, overcome, and bypassed the magical protection afforded by Lily. So the Pure-Bloods were and are right; magic is in one's blood. Geez, does Jo think through any of these decisions, like at all? She could've easily had Pettigrew conduct a ritual to siphon off Harry's magic or something along the lines of that. Voldy Moldyshorts already had human flesh from his servant, but he needed and wanted to overcome the protection from Lily, so he took Harry's blood.20) Why on God's green Earth would Ol' Fatty Hot Fudge have two Dementors with him during the Third and Final Task of the Triwizard Tournament? The most dangerous obstacles were a Boggart, a Sphinx, a Hippogriff, and an Acromantula. The Hogwarts staff could easily subdue those foes. Unless Dementors can teleport with Apparition, there's no way they could get there in the roughly half-hour between Harry's return from the graveyard and the time Crouch Junior is given the Dementor's Kiss.21) Why didn't Harry throw out Hedwig's cage after the summer between First and Second Years? Vernon had locked her in the cage and it tortured Harry to see her in such a state, so why didn't he solve the problem by discarding the cage? My brother's kids are much younger and their response to something they don't like is to throw it away.22) So, the Locket Horcrux fucked around with Harry's and Hermione's emotions, logic centers, and general being, right? Why? Harry had been running around for the majority of his life with a Horcrux in his head and it didn't affect him one bit. The youngest Weasley was affected so much because she poured so much of herself into the Diary (which is actually kinda smart, despite the ridiculousness of the Horcrux implementation). So why did the Locket affect Harry and, by extension, Hermione? It shouldn't have, or the Horcrux in Harry's head should've twisted him over the years. Again - Jo used her characters to further the plot rather than her characters driving the plot for her.23) This idea was sent to me from somebody whose name I can't remember right now, but what they asked me was..."When does a spell end?" Obviously, the spell is dispelled either via an Ending Spell (i.e. Finite, Finite Incantatem, etc.) or by Curse-Breaking. What about when the caster dies? The Full-Body Bind Curse that Dumblefuck cast on Harry while at the top of the Astronomy Tower ended at the moment of Dumbledork's death. It's even discussed in those terms. However...A. What about all the ancient ruins that William plunders for Gringotts? Granted, one could make the argument that these were protected via runes or other non-spell originating sources, but it begs the cry of, "inconsistency!" The Fidelius Charm on Twelve Grimmauld Place? Wizarding portraits? Are they rune enchanted or is the paint a potion? It's very, very vague and, again, not very well thought out.24) One other idea from the mystery person. There's a minor loophole in the Fidelius Charm. Follow an Order member as they travel. They're walking down the street, past Six Grimmauld Place. Number Nine. Number Ten. Whoops, he just disappeared, but where to? Lessee...over there is Ten Grimmauld Place and over there is Fourteen Grimmauld Place. Hmmm, the mind boggles.25) So Harry's the Master of Death, right? How? Well, one would have to be in possession of all three of the Deathly Hallows. But Harry cast away the Resurrection Stone with no intent to retrieve it before he encountered Voldy Moldyshorts in the Forbidden Forest. He no longer had it in his possession, ergo, he no longer was the Master of that Deathly Hallow. The Elder Wand is an interesting case that Jo actually, surprisingly, provided a good case for why Harry didn't need to physically possess the item. The Cloak of Invisibility had been Harry's for years, but the Stone, he'd gotten rid of. All that build-up thrown away in a vain attempt at a dramatic scene. He could've just put the Stone in his pocket (having his parents, Sirius, and Lupin vanish) while still maintaining mastery over that Hallow.26) The staff of Hogwarts did NOTHING when Malfoy distributed his 'Potter Stinks' badges? Really? They allowed students to wear a degrading button? Really? At Holly's nephew's school, the students can't wear anything that even hints at degrading another student or they get suspended, or even worse, expelled and arrested.27) The staff of Hogwarts and the organizers of the Triwizard Tournament allowed a reporter (especially one with an infamous reputation) to interview a fourteen-year-old boy without an adult present. Sure. Yeah. I believe that.28) Why were Harry and Hermione hungry on the Horcrux hunt? Can't anyone incant, "Accio Fish."?29) Why didn't Lupin and/or Snivellus see two sets of Harrys and Hermiones running around on the Marauder's Map?30) It takes a dozen trained handlers to control a single Dragon, yet the Triwizard Tournament organizers expect one school age wizard or witch to survive the First Task? Really? That's the equivalent of turning a Junior in high school loose in a cage with an enraged, rabid tiger. That's fucking insane bullshit right there.31) How did Filch survive being persecuted during Harry's Seventh Year and remain at Hogwarts, despite the fact he was a Squib. After all, Voldy hated anyone who was a Muggle, a Muggle-Born, a Half-Blood, a Blood Traitor, a Squib, a magical creature, or a Half-Breed, and not a loyal Pure-Blood.32) The magical object known as the 'Pensieve' was introduced in Goblet of Fire. Why then, didn't Dumblefuck offer up Harry's memory of Ol' Voldy Moldyshort's return as evidence at the end? It seemed (upon first reading) to be an obvious plot device. Kinda like Amortentia in Half-Blood Prince...33) So the enchantment on the Mirror of Erised would only release the Philosopher's Stone (I'm American) to a person who wanted to find the Stone, but not use it. A person like Quirrell; due to the fact that he only wanted to find the Stone while Voldy wanted to use it.34) Dumblefuck decided not to close off the Whomping Willow or any of the other secret entrances into that dusty old school, despite the fact that Sirius (at the time thought to be guilty) new all of the entrances into Hogwarts as he was one-quarter of the group (The Marauders) that knew where they all were.35) Jo completely ripped-off and copied numerous pieces from J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings'. Here are all of the ones that I found:A. Frodo=Harry,B. Gandalf=Dumbles,C. Sauron=Voldy,D. Saruman=Snivellus,E. Wormtongue=Wormtail,F. Gollum=Kreacher,G. Nazgûl=Dementors,H. Shelob=Aragog,I. Aragorn=Sirius,J. One Ring=Horcruxes+Cloak of Invisibility (Locket Horcrux messes with your mind+Ring Horcrux is a ring+Cloak of Invisibility makes you invisible+Horcrux contains part of your soul, just like the One Ring),K. Longbottom is a type of pipeweed that's smoked in the Shire,L. Merry and Pippin=Fred and George,M. Four main races of Middle-Earth=Four Houses of Hogwarts (Men=Gryffindor, Elves=Ravenclaw, Dwarves=Slytherin, and Hobbits=Hufflepuff),N. 'Him That We Do Not Name'='He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named'/'You-Know-Who',O. Old Man Willow or "The Old Gray Willow-Man." (as called by Tom Bombadil)=the Whomping Willow,P. Dumbledor=Dumbledore (Tolkien used the word 'Dumbledor', minus the 'e', before Jo did, with the addition of an 'e'),There's more, but I'm getting pissed off, so I'll stop now.