The Headmaster's Hideouts

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 86994

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Marci" <blackgold101 at y...> 
wrote:
> > digger:
> > 
> > He was in his office all the time! With it magically sealed, who 
> was to 
> > know? So he had all his home comforts, food from the house 
elves, 
> etc. 
> > Thats my guess anyway.
> 

Marci:
> 
> That was my guess as well:  HOGS - Headmaster Outsmarted Grotesque 
> She-devil
> 
> HOGS KID
> Headmaster's Office Greatly Sealed, Kept Inside Dumbldore.
> 
> I don't think he ever left Hogwarts.


Jen R: I like your acronyms, but the portraits tell Harry a 
different story when he arrives in the headmaster's office via 
Portkey. The "corpulent, red-nosed wizard" asks if Dumbledore will 
be returning soon, and another wizard says, "Oh, good...It has been 
very dull without him, very dull indeed." (Chap. 37, p. 821, US). 
Besides, staying in the office would be hiding out, and DD stated 
he's not going to do that.

That doesn't *completely* crash the theory--DD could have come and 
gone from the office several times, and recently been away for 
awhile. But it suggests he had somewhere else to go, too. 

Where, though? He's certainly been in hiding to the mainstream WW, 
or the Daily Prophet would have reported sightings of him. Maybe he 
went off to see the Giants himself? Transfigured and did a little 
spying? Attempted to get the Goblins on-board, or wizards from other 
countries? 

Jen Reese