you're nobody until somebody loves you
A HariPo drabble collection
by mew-tsubaki
Tags: Cross-gen.
- ^-^3
Often she wondered how he got through the day. How could he filter all the thoughts that ran through that crazy head of his?
Minerva was unsure if she admired him or loved him. Was one a substitute for the other? Did one make more sense when applied to Albus Dumbledore? Would it be different if she knew everything about him?
He told her that would be impossible. "I am still learning," he said of himself, and he looked all his years in that moment.
Minerva paused. She, herself, had just learned that admiration and love could be one thing.
- ^-^3
Dumbly's line is a quote said by the artist Michelangelo in 1560—at age eighty-five. We never really are done learning; unfortunately, thanks to Rita Skeeter we learned more than we wanted about Dumbly.
-mew! :'(