Musical Tastes of Dumbledore & Flamel

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 3639

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Caius Marcius" <coriolan at w...> 
wrote:

> The best definition of music I know is by the composer Ferruccio 
> Busoni: "Music is myth, metaphysics, and magic."

He left out mathematics.

I think you weren't around when some people were inspired by 
Dumbledore's reaction to singing the school song at the Arrival Feast 
in Book 1: "Ah, music, a magic above all we teach here." They were 
saying, suppose he meant it literally, suppose the way to dissolve 
Voldemort is to sing harmonies with the Phoenix.