Dumbledore-Reading Minds

[ariadnemajic]

No: HPFGUIDX 77013

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "acoteucla" <acoteucla at h...> 
wrote:
> Dumbledore has claimed to have watched Harry "closer than he 
> realizes" during his years at Hogwarts.  The best explanation to 
how he knows so much is that he was there when the incidents 
happened.  I personally favor the idea that Dumbledore is (yet 
another) unregistered animagus.  I think he's the wasp we see during 
Harry's transfiguration OWL.



I agree that Dumbledore must be an animagus (the greatest wizard in 
the world and former transfiguration teacher wouldn't pass on that 
opportunity!). I do remember reading in a post one time that he might 
not be unregistered, either, b/c Hermione only looked at registered 
animagus for "this century."

So he would be using this skill to watch Harry, but I also think he 
relies heavily on other people to pass info on to him. We didn't find 
out until Book 5 (or maybe book 4 for some people) that Mrs. Figg is 
always keeping an eye on Harry, as well as Mundungus and Mr. Tibbles, 
when he's with the Dursleys.  Then there's the Weasley's at the 
Burrow; Snape, Lupin, McGonagall and presumably fake!Moody at 
Hogwarts. And we find out in Book 4 that Sirius passes on info from 
his correspondence to Dumnbledore. My guess is Harry rarely has a 
moment of privacy unless he's bathing, which he never seems to do!!

Ariadne