Dumbledore Reading the Signs (WAS: extra canon for safe house/MAGIC DISHWASHER)

[erisedstraeh2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 46568

Pippin ("pippin_999") wrote:
 
> 2) Sirius just put it that way because he needed to convince 
> Harry that Dumbledore would take him, er, seriously. 
> Dumbledore's reading the signs and Moody's hiring are 
> unrelated--this of course is consonant with MAGIC 
> DISHWASHER, since MD!Dumbledore wouldn't need any "signs" 
> to tell him that Voldemort was about to return.

Now me:

I think canon tells us that Dumbledore did read the signs that told 
him that Voldemort was about to return.  In Ch. 30 of GoF, Harry asks 
Dumbledore: "Professor...do you think he's [Voldemort's] getting 
stronger?" Dumbledore responds: "The years of Voldemort's ascent to 
power...were marked with disappearances.  Bertha Jorkins has vanished 
without a trace in the place where Voldemort was certainly known to 
be last.  Mr. Crouch, too, has disappeared...within these very 
grounds.  And there was a third disappearance, one which the 
Ministry, I regret to say, does not consider of any importance, for 
it concerns a Muggle.  His name was Frank Bryce, he lived in the 
village where Voldemort's father grew up, and he has not been seen 
since last August.  You see, I read the Muggle newspapers, unlike 
most of my Ministry friends...These disappearances seem to me to be 
linked."

This tells me that Dumbledore is tracking these disappearances, and 
is linking them to Voldemort's rise to power.  I think this *is* 
consistent with MAGIC DISHWASHER, in that, in a war of spies, 
information gathering is of utmost importance.  So Dumbledore gathers 
information from all available sources (including Muggle newspapers), 
looks for clues, and links the clues to his hypotheses of what's to 
come.

I also think Dumbledore's reading the signs and Moody being hired are 
directly related.  Granted, the following quote is from Fake!Moody, 
but I believe it to be truthful nonetheless:  "...I'm staying just 
the one year.  Special favor to Dumbledore..." (Ch. 14, GoF).  I 
believe this suggests that Dumbledore got Moody, the infamous tough 
ex-Auror, out of retirement in order to deal with Voldemort's 
anticipated rise to power.  Why else would Dumbledore pull someone 
out of retirement, and for just a single year?

~Phyllis