[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore's knowledge (OOP)

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No: HPFGUIDX 49831

In a message dated 15/01/2003 11:07:21 Eastern Standard Time, rvotaw at i-55.com 
writes:


> This is exactly what I thought.  I'm wondering if he won't after all be the 
> death in Book 5.  Or if he will die early in Book 6, depending on which 
> part of 
> Book 5 that was in.  Could be all the way at the end, as a conclusion. 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?
> 
> Also, I can't help but wonder.  Why is Harry lying flat on his back in a 
> flowerbed?!? 

Tackling the seemingly easier question first- I don't know. ;) Maybe he is 
just soaking up the warmth of the day and thinking. Maybe the Dursleys have 
left him and gone on holiday and he is enjoying every last bit of freedom 
their absence gives him- including laying flat on his back in Petunia's 
precious flowerbed. Or- more likely, his scar.

On to the more difficult question-

Dumbledore has always tried to protect Harry in every facet. I think there is 
information yet to come from him that may have upset, frightened, etc Harry 
in his younger years. But, as we see in GoF, Dumbledore tells Harry that he 
did more than anyone could have expected even an adult wizard to do when 
facing Voldemort. Although, I am hoping for a deeper darker secret to be 
revealed. There all kinds of theories on Dumbledore in this discussion group, 
and I wouldn't be surprised if some of them actually do come into fruition 
with what Dumbly-dore ( I just love Madame Maxime) is to reveal to Harry. We 
don't a great deal about him. ( "Dumbledore, great Man" and the like aside). 
Don't get me wrong, I do not want to find out that he is evil or was evil in 
any way, but I have a sneaking suspicion that something completely unexpected 
will be revealed. 

The deception of Voldemort has been great. He and his D.E.s controlled people 
and made them do horrible things... I think it is here where we might see 
some revelations. Also, I think Dumbledore will better explain why he really 
left Harry with the Dursleys and what kind of protection was granted to Harry 
while in their care.

-Snuffles who just preorder five different editions in different languages 
because she is such a HP nerd


"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty 
recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the 
dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with 
open eyes, to make it possible. This I did."  T.E. Lawrence- Seven Pillars of 
Wisdom


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