Dumbledore and how he knew about Ginny's possession

[Donna]

No: HPFGUIDX 77090

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "acoteucla" <acoteucla at h...> 
> wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "angelberri56" 
> > <pokeypokey at c...> wrote:
> > > I'm sorry if this has already been said, but:
> > > 
> > > How did Dumbledore know that Voldemort had possesed Ginny, 
> > > at then end of CoS... when Harry stopped talking because he 
> > > didn't want to say that Ginny had done all the Petrifying? I'm 
> > pretty 
> > > sure it was because of Occlumency, but if someone else has an 
> > > idea, please tell me. 
> > > 
> > > Also, in PS/SS, when Hermione and Harry go up to the North 
> > > Tower to drop off Norbert, and then leave the invisibility 
cloak, 
> > > how did Dumbledore know where it was to return it to Harry's 
> > > bed? Remember, it had a note attached to it that said: "Just 
in 
> > > case." That was most likely Dumbledore who left it. How did he 
> > > know it was there? Did he just find it there by accident and 
then 
> > > return it to Harry?
> > > 
> > > "angelberri56"
> > 
> > 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.
 
Doesn't anyone remember Dumbledore saying he didn't need the 
invisibilty cloak to be invisisble?  He did say it after Ron and 
Harry had visited the mirror of Erised.  I don't remember exactly 
where in SS.  But he is able to move about the school invisibly.  I 
think that is how he kept an eye on Harry.

I also think that Dumbledore is quite the master of logic.  Even 
though Harry didn't say Ginny was possessed, I am sure he realized 
the diary had some strong magic attached to it.  Tom Riddle created 
the magic when he was only 16.  Even though he was pretty powerful 
even then, I am sure Dumbledore was able to realize the power behind 
that particular item.

Perhaps, he logically concluded that Ginny had been writing in it and 
knowing the kind of magic used and whose diary it was, he figured 
Ginny was possessed.  The man may be a little mad, but he is 
brilliant.
 
D