Dumbledore - Cats - Portkey - Cloak Flint

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 24966

CMC wrote:

>He still has a lot to explain to Harry - e.g., since the first 
>                 question Harry asked of him was why Voldemort wanted 
to kill him, it 
                 makes sense that it will be Dumbledore who will 
finally reveal this 
                 (he promised to tell Harry when he was old enough).

To nitpick, he didn't promise to tell; he told Harry that when he was 
old enough he would know.  I tend to think (and hope) Harry will come 
to understand it not through an end-of-book summing-up chat with the 
Big D but in some other way.

However, I agree with your basic point that we have a lot to learn 
from and about Dumbledore before his curtain falls.

Joywitch wrote:

>Didnt JKR say in interviews that she is (1) not particulary fond of 
>cats, but that (2) cats will be increasingly more important in later 
>books?  Or am I just starting rumors here?

She definitely said (1)--specifically, she said they would be what she 
ordered into Room 101, a statement I may not forgive her for.  Brits, 
please tell me that's just an expression for "things you really 
dislike."

Don't know about (2).  We cat lovers can only hope.  To her credit, 
cats are good guys/gals so far:  Crookshanks, Minerva.

Cindy wrote:

> So I'm thinking that Bertha Jorkins tells Crouch/Voldemort/Wormtail 
> that the Cup is a portkey that transports the winner to the entrance 
> of the maze, specially permitted by Dumbledore just for the 
> Tournament.  They realize that their only chance of transporting 
> Harry to Voldemort for rebirthing is to use the only portkey that 
> will work:  the Cup.  A toothbrush won't work.  Then, as others have 
> stated, it is Moody's job to change the settings on the Cup to go to 
> Voldemort instead. 

I like this theory best of all the ones I've heard, but it's 
undermined by Crouch's confession:

Then Dumbledore said "And tonight . . ."
"I offered to carry the Triwizard Cup into the maze before dinner," 
whispered Barty Crouch.  "Turned it into a Portkey."  (very end of ch 
35)

Cindy also wrote:

> The sequence was that Snape 
> picks it up and brings it to the Shrieking Shack.  Then Lupin puts 
it 
> into his pocket and takes it outside, where Lupin transforms.  Then 
> Lupin runs into the forest as a werewolf.  So the Cloak is either 
> with Lupin in the forest, or lying on the ground outside the 
Whomping 
> Willow.  So why does Lupin say he "brought this from the Shrieking 
> Shack" -- the one place the cloak could not possibly have been?

You're right--it's a Flint.  Good catch!  Someone send Cindy a pack of 
BB Every Flavor Beans, and a membership card for LOON!

Amy Z

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