rumors of Dumbledore's escape

[Arya]

No: HPFGUIDX 75646

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "tyoria" <tyoria at y...> wrote:
> hello, I'm new here. :)
> 
> I just wanted to know if anyone else caught this error, at the 
> beginning of chapter twenty-nine:
> 
> "The notices had gone up all over the school overnight, but they 
did 
> not explain how every single person within the castle seemed to 
know 
> that Dumbledore had overcome two Aurors, the High Inquisitor, the 
> Minister of Magic, and his Junior Assistant to escape."
> 
> But Dumbledore DIDN'T overcome the Junior Assistant, remember? 
Fudge 
> sent Percy off to deliver an owl just beforehand. Is this an error 
on 
> JKR's part, or a clue? 
> 
> I notice that in the previous chapter, Harry feels something brush 
> against him that he later attributes to Kingsley's spell. But what 
if 
> it was someone in an invisibility cloak leaving the room? They 
would 
> have known that Harry and Marietta were the only students to have 
> witnessed the scene, but they WOULDN'T have known that Percy left 
> shortly afterwards, so they assumed that he was still in the room 
> when Dumbledore made his getaway. That could also explain why some 
of 
> the other information the students had was inaccurate, like Fudge 
> having a pumpkin for a head...

I just assumed they lumped all the people who were seen to have 
arrived as part of Fusge's entourage togehter.  THe brush past his 
sleeve, I assumed to be the spell being cast from Kingsley to 
Marietta.  Ans as for how everyone knew, I assumed it is like where 
Harry's name came out of the GoF: the portraits talk and gossip and 
pass along info.  (More evidence of this is that one of the portraits 
in Dumbledore's office told Ernie Macmillian that Harry used 
Gryffindor's sword to kill a basilisk.)  

But, you never know, you could be right.  I just explained everything 
away a different way.

Arya