Dumbledore's watch

Dominique Medal strayaluna at bellsouth.net
Tue Nov 12 00:21:20 UTC 2002


No: HPFGUIDX 46495

'Dumbledore gave a great sniff as he took a golden watch from his 
pocket and examined it. It was a very odd watch. It had twelve hands 
but no numbers; instead, little planets were moving around the edge. It 
must have made sense to Dumbledore, though, because he put it back in 
his pocket and said, 'Hagrid's late...'
p15, PS

The watch does not follow people. It is instead some sort of celestial 
watch. I don't know how it works, but I imagine that magic is heavily 
involved.
While he may have assigned planets to various people, this is not 
supported by canon. All canon seems to imply is that Hagrid was 
supposed to be at the Dursleys' by a certain time, which Dumbledore can 
tell from his celestial watch.
Besides which, wouldn't it have mentioned any writing, like 'In Mortal 
Peril' or 'Late,' in the description? That's not something you find on 
Muggle watches, and so it would need to be described.

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