[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore's "triumph"

[LD]

No: HPFGUIDX 42208

I prefer to think of the gleam in Dumbledore's eye as one of
anticipation. Dumbledore defeated Grindelwald whilst he was teaching at
Hogwarts. He certainly wasn't asked to do it as part of his studies, so
perhaps these sorts of secretive Wizarding Wars are what gets his
metaphorical rocks off. Dumbledore seems to me the type of guy that
lives for the chase. He wants Voldemort to get to full strength so that
when he is finally defeated, it's not a hollow victory. Capturing
Vapourmort would do no good. Sure he'd still be a hero, but wheres the
fun in battling a noxious gas? Dumbledore wants a tense, thrilling,
nail-biting,
rickety-catwalk-over-a-river-of-molten-lava-with-dragons-battling-overhe
ad kind of victory. Dumbledore is a bang addict, like all of us ;)

-LD