"[Five] Years": Canon precedence; flowerbed

[mitchbailey82 <MITCHBAILEY82@HOTMAIL.COM>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49957

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "David <dfrankiswork at n...>" 
<dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:
> Yes, I agree it only counts as a Flint if Dumbledore turns out to 
be 
> referring to his conversation at the *end* of PS where he 
> specifically refuses to answer Harry's question about why Voldemort 
> came after him.
> 
> My thinking was that because Dumbledore is showing regret he is 
> referring to a specific missed opportunity, not just saying "I 
could 
> have told you this anytime in the last five years
> 
> David

Me:
I've got a suspicion that they Dursleys should have given Harry that 
Letter from Dumbledore five years ago (approximately) but as we know 
they didn't.
Now Dumbledore must know that Harry didn't get his letter – as I 
can't see Hagrid keeping that from him. But he didn't re- send the 
letter did he? My guess is that he thought that maybe it would be 
better to wait until Harry was older after all and he is regretting 
this know.

On a side note about the flowerbed scene – I'm wondering if it might 
be in a dream or Harry's –could be wrong but so far POA is the only 
book where we don't see one of Harry's dreams whilst he's at the 
Dursleys. In PS when we first meet 10 year old Harry he wakes up from 
a dream about a certain motorcycle and in COS he has a dream before 
being rescued by Ron and in GOF the first chapter is basically what 
Harry sees in his dream and ends with him waking up. So in both PS 
(if you ignore first chapter with baby Harry in it) and GOF we are 
first introduced to Harry as he wakes up from a dream. 
I've just got a feeling that maybe it could be another dream, theres 
got to be a twist in their somewhere!
Michelle