Dumbledore "wrote" Book 1

pippin_999 foxmoth at qnet.com
Sun Jan 13 15:31:26 UTC 2002


No: HPFGUIDX 33332

When I first read the message subject, I thought you might mean 
it literally. The narrative voice in PS/SS does skip ahead, and 
back. And then I thought, what if the narrative voice *is* 
Dumbledore?

It goes outside Harry's POV to follow Hermione's attack on 
Snape, and it tells us that "Snape would never know what 
happened." Who'd know that, really, except Dumbledore? The 
finality of it gives me pause, though. If my theory's right, then 
Dumbledore will survive the series but Snapey(sob!) won't.

On a point that *is* related to your post...we've speculated that 
McGonagall's The Stone Is Impossible To Steal comment is the 
literal truth. Well, what if what everyone, Hagrid, Sirius, Hermione 
and Voldemort himself, is telling the truth when they say No One 
Can Harm Harry At Hogwarts While Dumbledore Is There?
  From a wizard's point of view broken bones are a minor 
inconvenience...in which case Harry's only ever been hurt by 
accident, falling off his broom or being de-boned unintentionally.

What do you all think?

Pippin





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