Dumbledore's knowledge (OOP)

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David said:
>"Dumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half-
moon glasses.  
 
`It is time,' he said, `for me to tell you what I should have told 
you five years ago, Harry.  
 
 Please sit down.  I am going to tell you everything.'"
 
Elkins and others have commented on how the legacy items Harry 
depends on  - mother's protection, map, cloak - are failing him as 
the story goes on.
 
Taken at face value, the above quote ('everything') implies that 
Dumbledore's usefulness is about to run out.  His power and wisdom 
may still have value, but any mysteries in books 6 and 7 will be as 
unknown to Dumbledore as to us. His omniscience will be at an end.<


Richelle said:
>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?<


me:
I agree with that as well. But IMO I think DD knows he's end is 
near. I would hate to see DD go, but in some ways it makes sense. 
There comes a time when your mentor is gone and you have to go on. 
DD in his wisdom knows that this and true and feels that its time 
tell Harry everything so that Harry can go on knowing the truth. 

Why did he wait? Well I think he waited cause it would have been to 
much for him to take in when he 1st started Hogwarts. Harry had 
after all just learned about his parents and how they died. He also 
learned about who he really is and what that means. Its alot for 
someone to take in, no matter what age. After he could have told him 
but things just kept happening and he put it off. Thinking maybe he 
wouldn't have too. But with the return of LV he knows that it has to 
be done. 

That one quote though brings so much speculation to my head. So many 
questions and so little answers. What does DD know? Is he related to 
Harry?(a question that I know has been asked before) Why was LV 
after the Potter's? Was he even after James and Lily or was Harry 
the real target all along? (don't know if this has been asked before 
but something I always wondered about. Not sure if this is the exact 
quote but didn't LV say to Lily "step aside" when he came after her. 
It's always seemed to me that he was after Harry. Maybe he knew that 
Harry would be the wizard to kill him so he thought "why not kill 
him before his powers grow." *if this has been brought up before 
sorry my mind is going wild with ideas.) 

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