What Dumbledore (doesn't) knows

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No: HPFGUIDX 18313

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Morag Traynor" <moragt at h...> wrote:
> MMMfanfic wrote:
> >
> >A question I have is how did Dumbledore know someone is after the
> >Stone in the first place without knowing who is after it?  
Divination?
> 
> How did he know someone would be after a stone that gives the 
possessor 
> immortality and boundless wealth???? <g> OK, I assume you mean how 
did he 
> know someone would be after it at that particular time.  Perhaps 
there had 
> been an attempt on it before, and Nicholas Flamel had asked him to 
look 
> after it.  Presumably it wasn't at Gringotts then.  Or perhaps D 
has some 
> link with Voldemort - it wouldn't be the first time he has acted 
with 
> uncanny speed. He must have sent Hagrid with instructions to get 
baby Harry 
> within minutes of V's flight:  Hagrid is (as far as we know) first 
on the 
> scene.  It can't have been more than a couple of hours, for a baby 
to 
> survive in the rubble.  (I know there are amazing stories of 
infants 
> surviving days after an earthquake, but a novel, even one with 
wizards and 
> dragons, has to stick with what's plausible.)  Yet he misses three 
> unregistered animagi under his nose for several years.  Odd.
> 

What's even odder is that for almost a year somebody was 
impersonating a good friend of his, under his very nose, in very 
close quarters, and he didn't spot it. The wise, intuitive 
Dumbledore. Let me join Rosmerta (I think) in suggesting that JKR 
switched to the False Moody solution after writing large chunks of 
the story with Moody being the real Moody. The False Moody solution 
is so mechanical. It's the one thing in the books that really jars 
me. Much more than all the little flints we keep dredging up.

Naama