The Headmaster's Hideouts

[marigoldevans]

No: HPFGUIDX 87045

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Derek Hiemforth <derek at r...> 
wrote:
> digger wrote:
> >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.
> 
> Derek:
> This might also be what he meant when he told Harry in SS/PS that 
> he didn't need an invisibility cloak to be invisible.  He might not 
> have meant literally invisible, so much as just not noticed...
> 
> - Derek

I agree that he would have wanted to stay close to keep an eye on 
his school and Harry, and there doesn't seem to be anything out 
there to disprove that DD could be a metamorphmagus.  But there is 
another way he could have stayed in the area, if not at the school.  
If Aberforth is indeed DD's brother, as many people suspect, it 
would seem an ideal solution for DD to go hang out at the Hog's 
Head.  In fact, in Chapter 32, Out of the Fire (Am. ed., pg. 748), 
while Hermione is tearfully explaining that they had tried to 
contact DD at the Leaky Cauldron, the Three Broomsticks, and even 
the Hog's Head, Dolores angrily cuts her off shouting, "Idiot girl, 
Dumbledore won't be sitting in a pub when the whole Ministry's 
looking for him!"  (Sorry about that long sentence!)  After reading 
that, I never doubted that that was exactly what DD was doing.

Marigoldevans