The Gleam! Oh No!

[derannimer]

Anna wanted to know what The Gleam was: 

>Ok, Simon, 

>I missed something somewhere.

>You and John both mention the "gleam in Dubledore's eyes" . . .

>What, exactly, does this mean? (I got the Arabella Figg connection, 
>after listening to GoF for the second time), but what did I miss 
>with Dumbledore?

You know, at the end of GOF, when Harry is telling Dumbledore and 
Sirius about what happened to him in the Graveyard? Harry tells 
Dumbledore that now Voldemort can touch him without flinching. Then 
it says: 

"For a fleeting instant, Harry thought he saw a gleam of something 
like triumph in Dumbledore's eyes. But next second, Harry was sure he 
had imagined it, for when Dumbledore had returned to his seat behind 
the desk, he looked as old and weary as Harry had ever seen him." 

That's The Gleam. It's sort of a companion piece to Snape's Sudden 
Movement. Both have inspired many theories, some of them deranged.




Derannimer (who enjoys a deranged theory as much as the next theorist)