Dumbledore and Dementors

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) <catlady@wicca.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52695

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Mags, "Barclay, Maggie" 
<mbarclay at l...> wrote:

> This makes me wonder what the Dementors make Dumbledore see or 
> feel.  Do you think he has anything as horrible in his past as 
> Harry does?  Just a thought . . .

I can't see HOW he could NOT. I mean, how could he have escaped 
horrors when he's 150 years old, he was active in the anti-Voldemort 
effort during the Bad Years, he is famed for having defeated a 
previous Dark Wizard, and he was also there for all the Muggle wars 
of the twentieth century? 

When Harry asked Dumbledore what he saw in the Mirror of Erised and 
Dumbledore said he saw himself getting socks as a Christmas present, 
many people think Dumbledore was lying or that the socks are code for 
something about House Elves, but I think he was telling the literal 
but not complete truth: I think he saw himself with the horrible ugly 
hand-knitted socks that his late beloved wife or late beloved mother 
used to make for him for every Christmas, and it was not the socks he 
wanted, but their maker. Based on only that flimiest shred of 
evidence, I wonder if the reason he went after Grindelwald was that 
his wife had been killed by Grindelwald?