[HPforGrownups] Vernon knowing Dumbledore ... secrets timeline booboos

[Doreen]

No: HPFGUIDX 14928

Woah!  Doreen!  Did you go to my high school?  I grew up with people who would read into books like that --I always wondered at that ability, as I'm not usually a "reader-into".
anyway...
**Who would be the secret keeper in Harry's case? Gee, wouldn't be great if it were Sirius, who missed his chance to keep Harry's parents safe by passing the job to Pettigrew? He is, after all, Harry's godfather. I think this makes sense. Do you?** 

Well, that would imply there was an earlier secret-keeper.  Remember, when Harry was being taken to the Dursleys as a little tot, Sirius was on the lam and ended up getting dragged off to Azkaban.  So he couldn't have been the secret keeper at that point.  So who was the first one?

**For whatever the reason is that Voldemort wanted Harry as a baby... and now wants him dead, he could not even begin to harm Harry until he was 11 because he did not know where he was being kept.**

Not to mention he was a slug in Romania... <g>  too bad he couldn't stay that way.  
Ooh...amusing thought.  Anyone else remember the little kid from the campsite at the Quidditch World Cup?  Kevin, the one who wasn't supposed to touch Daddy's wand?  "You bust slug!  You bust slug!" 
teehee...just had to share that, it  popped  into my head just now.  Anyways...

**Stepping off on a long branch here, what if the Dursleys were involved? **

Wow, you are willing to look for the good in everyone! <g>  I tend not to agree with that, just 'cause I greatly dislike the Dursleys, but were it to be true, I think it would definately be an interesting twist...we need to start sending these ideas to JKR.

Abbie, who still loves little Kevin after her nth reading of GoF
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I read your letter and groaned ... smacked my forehead and thought that I really should have waited to post that letter until I had my ducks in line better. The ideas were off the top of my head... but not at all my very own original ideas ... they are thoughts that have been formulating here and there from all the letters and ideas that I have seen in this group... they are ideas that were formulated as I read the books for the second and third times. The first time I read for pleasure and fun. The second time I read for clarification and understanding, which was also fun, but in a different way. Have you ever watched a movie again & again and had different thoughts about what you saw? Maybe you notice things that were there but you didn't see the first time. 

I was not perceptive enough to notice the descendant/ancestor mistake. I am fairly certain that I would have noticed the wand mistake, if I had not already read about it. That is more the direction that my mind takes when reading ... as the shadows came out of the wand, I would have started piecing the stories backwards in my mind as they came out. I just know that I would have picked up on it... I would have expected Lily to come out ... and James coming out would have flipped me out. 

I am going back to my drawing board and refining my ideas so that they "work:".. as I should have in the first place... with HP books in my hands and the Lexicon on my monitor screen.

Doreen, who dreads to read what other mistakes she made while pondering "out loud"
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