[HPforGrownups] Something I noticed in PS/SS today...

[Jinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 1973


> I was rereading the end of PS/SS today and I notice a miniscule
> detail which I will now bore you with...
>
> After Hermione leaves Harry to drink the potion and advance to the
> next room she was to get Ron and immediately send an owl to
> Dumbledore. Ok, so then Harry fights Quirrell, yadda, yadda, yadda
> and now we are at Harry and Dumbly's talk.
>
> "...I arrived in time to prevent that, although you were doing very
> well on your own, I must say."
> "You got there?  You got Hermione's owl?"
> "We must of crossed in midair.  No sooner had I reached London than
> it became clear to me that the place I shoule be was the one I had
> just left..."
>
> Flash forward to Harry, Ron and Hermione's talk in the Hospital wing.
>
> "...So what happened to you two?" said Harry.
> "Well, I got back all right," said Hermione. "I brought Ron round-
> that took awhile- and we were dashing up to the owlery to contact
> Dumbledore when we met him in the entrance-he already knew-he just
> said, 'Harry's gon after him hasn't he?' and hurtled off to the third
> floor..."
>
>
> ARGH! This is now offically driving me crazy.  Dumbly has just told
> Harry that he will not lie to him. He doesn't specfically say that he
> got he Hermione's owl but it is certainly Implied.  However Hermione
> never sends the owl so who does, or how does he find out?????

Well, how he found out is a mystery.  My guess is that he got to the
Ministry, asked what they wanted him for, was told "we never sent for you,
what are you doing here?"
and realised someone wanted him out of the way at Hogwarts so rushed back.

The owl thing is far simpler to explain.  Dumbledore says nothing to
indicate that he ever got an owl from Hermione and Ron.  When Harry asks, he
says "we must have crossed in the air", indicating that he was already in
transit when the owl set off and it passed him without ever reaching him.  I
don't see any implication there that he got an owl.

(Yes I know HG and RW never sent one in the first place.  I was talking
hypothetically.  The point is, AD says nothing to indicate he received an
owl from Hogwarts.)

Jinx