[HPforGrownups] Re: The Headmaster's Hideouts

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No: HPFGUIDX 87003

  > Marci:
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>  > 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

Digger:

You are right Jen. DD can't have been in his office. I'd forgotton about 
the portraits missing his company. So here is my next theory (hope its 
not so easily trashed as my last) Dumbledore is a metamorphmagus. He 
stayed on at Hogwarts under various disguises.  After all, there is 
nothing as good as being hidden while in full view! That could also be 
how he has kept such a close watch on Harry all this time.


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