Dumbledore's Flint (OOP)

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No: HPFGUIDX 49812

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "David <dfrankiswork at n...>" 
<dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:
> 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

Maybe this conversation with Dumbledore comes at the end of OOP, the 
end of Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts, putting the "five years ago" 
mark closer to Harry's first year at Hogwarts.

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