- Dumbledore in PS/SS

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> > Pippin, I agree that Dumbledore isn't inactive through PS/SS.  I 
also 
> think it makes a lot of sense for Dumbledore to let Harry face 
these 
> dangers--even Voldemort, especially, as Jamie just pointed out, 
since 
> V is in a weakened state.  I'm just a bit nervous about how close a 
> shave it was; even Dumbledore feared he'd arrived too late.  I 
wonder 
> what he did intend to happen, then?  He returned Harry's cloak a 
> second time "just in case," and if Harry is right, he wanted them 
to 
> go after Quirrell and he also knew Harry would be confronting 
> Voldemort—-yet he didn't want him to face him alone, and rushed 
after 
> him when he learned where he was.  So what was Dumbledore's plan?  
> Did he intend for there to be a showdown, but at a time that he was 
> at Hogwarts to back Harry up, and he misjudged the timing?
> 
> Now I'm getting a headache.  Someone with a plot-perceptive brain, 
> please figure this one out for me.
> 
> Amy Z


Apparently Dumbledore *did* plan to be there when Harry had his 
confrontation with Voldy.  He was called away to London by the 
Ministry of Magic.  

pg. 194 UK:  'Professor Dumbledore left ten minutes ago,' she said 
coldly. 'He received an urgent owl from the Ministry of Magic and 
flew off for London at once.'  

pg. 215 UK:  'We must have crossed in midair.  No sooner had I 
reached London than it became clear to me that the place I should be 
was the one I just left.  I arrived just in time to pull Quirrell off 
you--' 

It seems to me from this conversation and one Harry has earlier with 
Ron and Hermione about Dumbledore's being called away, that it was a 
ruse to get Dumbledore *out of the way*.  Hmm, now I suspect Fudge 
even more.  

Peace & Plenty, 

Parker

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