Dumbledore's Flint (OOP)

[David <dfrankiswork@netscape.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49809

Richelle wrote:
> I'm also 
> wondering what exactly happens to make Dumbledore say he's going 
to tell 
> Harry "what I should have told you five years ago. . . . I'm going 
to tell you 
> everything."  Everything?  Wow.  So why has Dumbledore now changed 
his mind and 
> decided he should've told Harry everything to start with?  When 
Harry asked 
> various things in SS/PS in the hospital wing, Dumbledore said he 
couldn't tell 
> him--yet.  Now he thinks he should've told him then.  Why?

Yes, I wondered about that, too.

But there is something far more important than Dumbledore's regrets 
that hangs on this.

I reckon you are right, he is referring to that conversation in the 
hospital wing at the end of PS.  In which case, assuming that OOP 
covers only Harry's fifth year, it is at most only *four* years 
previously that Dumbledore missed his opportunity.

In which case we have an OOP *FLINT*, right here.

Now, it's possible that Dumbledore really does mean he should have 
told Harry everything five years before the OOP conversation, which 
might be around the time of the letters from no-one, or a little 
earlier.  So we can't know if it's a Flint till the book comes out, 
and maybe not even then.

Anyway, I stake my claim to be first to spot one, to be adjudicated 
June 22 by Gwen and Cindy.

David