DD's clothing ( was Re: Othello (possible spoilers)

[doddiemoemoe]

 DD responds:

  See there you were thinking 1930's or there abouts...and after 
reading about that suit all I could think about was what sort of 
time travel DD may have been involved in...  Especially since he 
appeared to be so nonchalant about time travel in POA; yet specific 
in his instructions towards Harry and Hermione...

   It may well give a great deal explanation to the "DD puppet 
master theory"...or it may not..and at the very least it does add to 
the entire purple suit mystery....LOL I had never had such an urge 
to write fan fic until now..(Albus Dumbledor and the Purple suit)..

  Sheesh...perhaps he time traveled just to be openly gay at some 
point in time...perhaps he played some sort of "pimp-daddy" that 
saved his "ho's"...or perhaps he time traveled and ended up on a 
197_ set of Starsky and Hutch and costumed himself as "Huggy Bear" 
and then suddenly realized he had an appointment in his own time 
line and went to meet the young Tom Riddle.(Although, more likely 
than not, he probably just went to the '60's and saw a Beetle's 
concert!) LOL

I dunno..but the more I go back and reread the series with a 
particular character in mind...the more I dread doing my "Dumbledore 
read through" because when I'm done, I'm not entirely sure I can 
leave time travel out of it when it comes to DD! (The least of it 
calls into question all the memories of DD that he allowed Harry to 
be exposed to..)

DD
(Who is not entirely sure that ALL the time turners were destroyed 
in OOP cannon given what we know of the battle scenes, but is 
entirely sure that time travel-DD would have ensured they were so 
Harry could succeed..Can you imagine if Voly's Moldys had access to 
a time turner, let alone D.Umbrige for example.)

 Carol posted:
> 
> It wouldn't be 1950s London. Tom Riddle left Hogwarts at eighteen 
in
> 1945, remember, so he would have been born December 31, 1926, and
> would have turned eleven on December 31, 1937. Dumbledore's visit 
must
> have taken place in the summer of 1938. During the Depression era,
> that suit would really have stood out!
> 
> BTW, I agree that DD could have played a Muggle easily even without
> resorting to Polyjuice Potion or Transfiguration beyond a temporary
> shaving spell and haircut that could be magically reversed. Why 
did he
> choose to stand out? i guess he figured that, with his long hair 
and
> beard, he might as well wear a flamboyant suit to match. He was 
stared
> at, but not as much as he would have been if he'd worn Wizard's 
robes
> or an outfit like Bob Ogden's striped bathing suit and spats.
> 
> Carol, fearing that the movie version has moved the scene to the 
1950s
> and made Severus Snape, Lucius Malfoy, and Regulus black
> contemporaries of Tom Riddle
>