[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore Dilemmas

[Vinnia Chrysshallie]

No: HPFGUIDX 54800

Hello everyone. I used to post occasionally, but have
been lurking for 5 months. Thanks greatlit2003 for
providing such an interesting topics to think about.

 --- greatlit2003 <hieya at hotmail.com> wrote: 

>>1. Why did Dumbledore suspect someone was betraying
the Potters? Did Snape tell him?

Me:
PoA chapter 10 (The Marauder's Map): "Dumbledore, who
was of course working tirelessly agains You-Know-Who,
had a number of useful spes. One of them tipped him
off, and he alerted James and Lily at once"

greatlit2003:
2. Why didn't Dumbledore become the Potters' Secret
Keeper???? In PoA, McGonagall said that Dumbledore had
offered to be Secret Keeper. Why didn't Lily and James
take him up on that offer?

Me:
Faith in your best friend. James trusted Sirius.
Making Dumbledore their secret keeper means doubting
Sirius' loyalty. Also, fidelius charm could save them.
They want their best friend to have that honour to
save their lives.

greatlit2003:
3. How did Dumbledore find out that the Potters were
dead? Hagrid and Sirius apparently arrived before any
of the authorities (magical or Muggle). We know that
Sirius suspected something was wrong when he went to
Wormtail's house and Wormtail was not home, without a 
sign of a struggle. 
4. How did Dumbledore know how the Potters died? (i.e.
that Lily died trying to save her son?) Was he
involved in an investigation at the scene of the
crime? 

Me:
I'm going to answer these along with the question of
the magical room Harry might visit.

I believe it is Dumbledore's office.
CoS chapter 12(The Polyjuice Potion), 2nd paragraph :
"If he hadn't been scared out of his wits that he was
about to be thrown out of the school, he would have
been very pleased to have a chance to look around it"
then "A number of curious silver instruments stood on
spindle-legged tables, whirring and emitting little
puffs of smoke" 
So clearly, Dumbledore's office is full of magical
instrument. It might have a certain magical properties
as well.

NOw, back to how Dumbledore knows about what happened
at Halloween '81. If Dumbledore's office used to be
Griffindor's office, and if Godric Hollow used to be
owned by him (could be as permanent house, could be as
a holiday house) the it's not too far a stretch to
think that there is a portal between the two places. 

For a while I was asking myself, why did James and
Lily relied on fidelius alone? Then I thought, maybe
they didn't. Harry just doesn't know about it, yet! I
think Dumbledore has a version of MArauder's Map of
Godric Hollow. Improved 3D version, miniature Potters
instead of dots, and may be able to produce sounds. Or
alternatively it could be some magical version of
muggle security camera. Anyway, this device would
alert Dumbledore should Voldemort attack (Not
necessarily because Sirius betrayed them, Voldemort
could have invented the anti fidelius charm!)

The plan was to have James holding Voldie off, while
DD open the portal, and let Lily and Harry through.
But something went wrong. Either DD was not in his
office for some reason, or James did not buy enough
time for him to open the portal, or maybe the portal
would not open, but anyway, he could not get there. So
he saw on his device, exactly how everything happened.
He also saw how Voldie being reduced to Vapor!Mort.

This device may have a playback function, the like of
the omnioculars in GoF. This, might be what DD will
show Harry in OOP. After all, in book 1, Harry learns
how his parent died. In book 3, he hears how they
died. It is possible that in book 5, he sees how they
died.

I may have been way way of the truth here, but you
never know!


Vinnia

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