Bertha Jorkins (WAS Unicorns - Potions - Animagi - Jorkins)

[Andrea]

No: HPFGUIDX 28015

> Catlady wrote:
> 
> > I read it as, Dumbledore is not still sad about
> the kissing, he is 
> > sad about Bertha's death. "Why did you have to
> follow him in the 
> > first place" applies to why did she follow
> Pettigrew from the 
> > Albanian tavern (where she ran into him on her
> holiday) to her 
> death 
> > and service to Voldemort? What caused that old
> memory to come up in 
> > the Pensieve was that he used the same
> sentence/question then as 
> now 
> > and the cause was Bertha's snoopiness then as now.

Well, the way I'd always read this scene is that
Dumbledore was remembering how Bertha was always
nosing around in places she shouldn't have and getting
herself in trouble - she was hexed by the kissing boy,
but only because she'd followed him back there in the
first place.  Dumbledore likely suspects that Bertha's
curiosity has gotten her in trouble yet again, which
is why the memory appeared in the Pensieve.


Andrea

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