[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore's Tear

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 78218

Buttercup wrote:

> he finally burdens Harry with the prophecy. He DOES
> cry when he tells Harry why he didn't choose him as
> prefect, which is probably the last and least
> important thing on Harry's mind.

I don't think it's over the Prefect issue that the tear came about, but
over, in Dumbledore's words ". . . you had enough responsibility to be going
on with."  Considering he had just, in effect, told a fifteen year old boy
who was already in great distress from grief that he had to by all accounts
save the world, it's understandable.   Since Dumbledore knew the prophecy
all along, the first time he held Harry at Privet Drive when leaving him on
the Dursley's doorstep he knew this was the child that would grow up to save
the world.  The WW from Voldemort at any rate.  The tear wasn't from the
"why Harry wasn't prefect issue" but from the "enough responsibility" part.

Richelle