[HPforGrownups] What Dumbledore Knows

[Morag Traynor]

No: HPFGUIDX 18613

Rita wrote:
I personally disagree. I firmly believe that McGonagall and Hooch have
>been a couple since forever.
I rather like this - they have their love of Quidditch in common.
>
>Morag Traynor wrote:
> > Yet he misses three unregistered animagi under his nose
> > for several years.  Odd.
>
>It recently occurred to me that maybe one of the ways that Dumbledore
>knows so much about what is going on at Hogwarts could be that the House
>Elves and the ghosts inform him of any unusual things they notice.

I'm not so sure I like this, though it is quite practicable.  And I 
certainly agree that the Marauders must have relied on the loyalty of elves, 
ghosts etc.  I just don't care for the idea of Dumbledore spying on everyone 
at Hogwarts.  True, he has a network of spies in the fight against 
Voldemort, but then V is the enemy, so that's different.  I prefer to think 
he has great powers of observation and deduction, allied to a deep knowledge 
of human nature, particularly where children are concerned.  He must have 
known almost every witch and wizard under the age of 100 as a child - what 
an insight that would give him!  I think his lack of knowledge about the 
animagi is a plot necessity that rather goes against the grain of his 
character.

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