Dumbledore's Flint (OOP)

[Cindy C. <cindysphynx@comcast.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49814

Richelle quoted JKR:

>"what I should have told you five years ago. . . . I'm going 
> to tell you everything."  

And then wondered:


>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?


Oh, that's easy!  ;-)

I think Dumbledore's statement comes toward the end of the book.  It 
occurs *after* Hermione is killed, see.  Harry is grieving the lost 
of his second-best friend, and Dumbledore explains all about . . . 
uh . . . what the protection surrounding Harry is and how it doesn't 
protect second-best friends.  I think Mrs. Figg is going to rub out 
Hermione, myself.  ;-)

David submitted his entry for First Flint:


> 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.
 

Nah, I think Dumbledore is thinking he blew it by not coming clean 
about the protection surrounding Harry back when Harry first learned 
he was a wizard -- five years earlier.

Cindy -- who thinks the first Flint is the fact that Harry is lying 
in a flower bed face *up* when everyone knows you are supposed to 
lie in flower beds face *down*