They weren't though. They were demanding to be cut in on the one plan that involves leaving a marked death eater wandering around the castle, and made it clear that if Dumbledore didn't want them acting and possibly fucking up his plan, they needed to know it.
To this day I still fondly remember the first time I ate a slice of chocolate cake in Berlin. Seven layers of different chocolates, cremes, and jams... It felt like my toungue was going to jump out of my mouth and slap me for ever considering Little Debbie Brownies as anything but trash.
I've always hoped that someone would just point out that even if he couldn't directly retrieve the ring with magic, he could have conjured up (or just left briefly to purchase a real one) a fishing pole and sidestepped the curse entirely. Kinda calling back to Hermione's words in book one, even the wisest and most powerful witches and wizards don't have a lick of common sense or logic.
That's honestly what I've thought to be happening for years, and that the Jinx Tom put on the Defense position was just tapping into (and subverting/redirecting) this effect to get rid of the professors.
Taylor: "Wait, there's a curse on the Defense Against the Dark Arts position?"
I wouldn't call it luck.
That is basically how dumbledore comes off as to me, he's a really unappealing 'mentor' character even in the original book series. Again, reiterating, his plan revolves around a notoriously unreliable and subvertable phenomena known as divination. Even in universe they acknowledge that divination is either scam artists or so vague to be nearly useless. Hell, even the one divination that is shown to be accurate which is the birth of the one to bring the dark lord's downfall isn't even aimed at a specific person, and the actions within it that could lead to the downfall are so vague that it could have been subverted with magic that was shown in-universe to be available, if rare.
There was also Sibyll's prophecy the night everything went down in the Shrieking Shack third year. Dumbledore pointed out that that brought Sibyll's number of true prophecies to two.
And if he's not really careful, likely to find out that breathing bugs is not a good idea.
This wouldn't work, I 'm afraid. The ritual that turned freaky-baby-Voldie back into a grown-ass noseless mutant had nothing to do with Horcruxes.
That's unfortunate.
Most likely wouldn't work, since he's the one who placed the curse in the first place upon being denied the position by Dumbledore.
At least it would have allowed him to be in a place at the time of their choosing so they could do something really nasty to him.
That was first year. It didn't work.
Quirrel was the professor, not the parasite.
It was a soul ritual, a horcrux is a soul shard. Voldemort moved his soul from a fucked up baby looking thing into a grown body made from the ritual that moved his soul into said new body. Why not literally do the same ritual, targeted at the soul inside his scar? This ritual would either work and kill Voldemort or it will fail and kill both Voldemort and Harry. It's still far more likely to succeed than hoping they both cast a spell at each other at the exact same time and "touch tips".
Are you suggesting Dumbledore take "The bones of the father, unknowingly given, the flesh of the servant, willingly given, and blood of the enemy forcibly taken"? how exactly do you plan for him to manage that.
It's not like Harry doesn't bleed a LOT during most school years. All Dumbledore needs to do is scoop some up after the latest fight or basilisk or blood quill or DADA lesson.
It's not "unknowingly taken" it's Forcibly. You're trying to cheat the ritual, something that basically every fanon take on rituals ever agrees is a terrible idea.
