Flowerbed and Dumbledore's Flint (OOP)

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49836

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Barb <psychic_serpent at y...> wrote:
> 
> "bluesqueak <pipdowns at e...>" <pipdowns at e...> wrote:
> No, no no. Harry [or Dudley] is lying in a flower bed face *up*
because someone or something has hit him in the face. This has made
him fall *backwards* into the flowerbed, landing on his back with face up.
> 
>  
> 
> Me: (barb)
> 
> ...edited... It seemed, with this image stuck in my mind, that JKR
obviously had him flat on his back because he had collapsed with
exhaustion after a day's work in the garden (especially if it was the
hottest day of the summer), and that the next thing we are likely to
read is a description of Petunia screeching like mad about his
crushing her precious flowers...(I didn't write that--this isn't a
fanfic post, believe me! <g>)
-end this part-


bboy_mn:
Or maybe, he was tugging on a particularly stubborn weed that suddenly
gave way, and sent him flying over backwards into the flower bed. The
theme being the very unglamours life of the most famous wizard in the
UK. Ron:'Still famous Harry?'  Harry:'Not where I'm going.'

That unglamours fall lead to thoughtful reflection, yada-yada and so
the story begin....
-bboy_mn-end this part-

> 
> "bluesqueak <pipdowns at e...>" <pipdowns at e...> wrote:
> 
> The soon to be notorious Dumbledore quote:
> 
> "what I should have told you five years ago. . . . I'm going to 
> tell you everything."
> 
> Whether 'five years ago' is a Flint or not, the more important
> speculation is that these lines ... ... are of course, said to 
> Harry in the hospital, at the end of term...
> 
> ... and will be the last lines in OoP. ;0)
> 
> 
> Me: (barb)
> 
> ... I'm guessing this would be in the penultimate chapter, the 
> final one dealing with the usual leaving feast and train ride home. 
> ...edited...
> 
> Waiting eagerly for the summer solstice,
> 
> --Barb


bboy_mn:

First, "five years"; it's a generalization.

Next, telling Harry. There is only so much you can dump on the
shoulders of an 11 year old boy. A boy who's shoulders are already
carrying a pretty heavy load. There are lots of things Harry wants to
know; desparately wants to know, but those are the same things the he
is well aware that he is not ready or able to know. He knows they are
important and he knows that they are significant, and most of all he
is well aware that that knowledge is going to be a very heavy load to
bear. But, at the sametime that he and everyone else is protecting
himself for that burden of knowledge, he and they are well are that
the time will come when, whether he wants to or not, he will have to
know. He's 15 now, not 11, and Voldemort is back, whether he wants to
or not, it's finally time to know.

I think it will start with Harry finally asking the Dursleys what was
in the letter that Dumbledore wrote. That knowledge will prompt him to
ask Dumbledore more question, some of which Dumbledore will still
refuse to answer. But things will go so bad and get so desparate, that
Dumbledore and Harry will have no choice but to accept that the time
for full disclosure has finally come.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

bboy_mn