Dumbledore...evil?

[taylorlynzie]

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One of the hottest debates since GoF has been...you guessed it: Is 
Dumbledore evil? I have tried to think of every possible solution to 
this and this is my theory of what makes the most sense to me:

As everyone has probably noticed the main theme in GoF is our choices 
(as will it be for the remainder of the books JKR has stated) 
Dumbledore mentions on at least two occasions that it matters not 
what someone is born but what they grow to be and also; it is our 
choices that shape who we are. Even way back in CoS Dumbledore says 
to Harry that it was the choice that Harry made NOT to be in 
Slytherin that set him apart from Voldemort. He also says that making 
the right choice is not always making the easy choice. 

 ....Annnnyways....getting on to my point of this post is that I 
believe that Dumbledore was perhaps born into a Dark Family, maybe 
even like the Malfoy's, gauging that he is around 150 this is quite 
possible without knowing much detail from the books. I could see 
Dumbledore being raised in a dark family much like little Draco yet 
being sorted into Gryffindor; thus greatly dissapointing his Dark 
family. He may have been molded to be next in line and may have even 
started to pursue this before realising the Dark way is not the right 
way. He could have made the very difficult descion (thus forth bring 
the quote into understandable and personal terms: What is right is 
not always the easiest choice...or something along those lines.). 
This could continue to be a daily struggle for him, for being raised 
in this Dark family he might still have doubts about the good side. 
That though Dumbledore was once on the dark side he slowly came over 
to the light (for reasons unknown to me) yet he still has to fight to 
stay good. 

It even mentions in the books that Dumbledore knows a great deal of 
dark magic (from his family?) but chooses not to use it. Perhaps 
having the ability to perform dark magic and not using it could be a 
struggle, this could also Snapes vindictivness. He was so far over in 
the Dark Arts that he was a death eater, this could have been why he 
finds it so hard to be cheerful (though I doubt being cheerful is in 
his nature, yet all the same.) maybe the dark magic not being used 
could cause and internal struggle that you constantly fight. This 
could explain the "glint of triumph" because when Harry mentions that 
Voldemort could now touch him, this was a bit of the dark magic deep 
in his veins coming through. 

One last point to make is that this could be the reason that 
Dumbledore was the only wizard that Voldemort ever feared: Because 
Voldemort knew that Dumbledore was capable of the dark magics that 
could match, or out weigh his own. Just some food for thought while 
we wait for book 5. 

By the way I am new to this community. Sorry if this post was a 
little uncomprehendable, I was typing as fast as I was thinking 
because new points kept popping up in my head. 

Cheers-
Taylor