Questions: Apparating and Dumbledore at the Hearing

[Phyllis]

No: HPFGUIDX 72855

Faith wrote:

> 1.  When Harry is at headquarters for the Order of the Phoenix, 
> Fred and George do a lot of showing off of their apparating 
> skills.  One evening they apparate into Harry and Ron's room and 
> land on Ron's knees - they say that apparating at night is harder.  
> WHY??

I assumed Gred and Forge were just referring to the fact that they 
couldn't see where they were landing once they apparated into Ron and 
Harry's room because it was dark in the room.  Alternatively, knowing 
Gred and Forge as we do, it's possible that they planned all along to 
land on Ron's knees and used this as a lame excuse.

Faith again:

> 2.  When Dumbledore is at the hearing for Harry he does an amazing 
> job of setting up the argument that if the Dementors were NOT 
> working for someone other than the ministry THEN someone AT the 
> ministry gave the order.  When I first read this, I thought he was 
> being VERY clever, but now, I'm wondering if he KNEW that someone 
> at the ministry gave the order and not Voldemort.

Since he's a Legimens himself, it's possible that Dumbledore 
suspected Umbridge and was able to probe her mind at the hearing to 
discover that she was the one who had sent the Dementors to Little 
Winging.  Or it's possible that Dumbledore suspected corruption 
within the Ministry and guessed that someone within the Ministry had 
sent the Dementors.  Another alternative is that Dumbledore was just 
enumerating all potential scenarios under varying assumptions.

Since OoP tells us that Dumbledore and the Order knew more about what 
Voldemort was up to than Voldemort suspected, it's possible that 
Dumbledore knew that Voldemort had not sent the Dementors, which left 
someone inside the Ministry as the most likely suspect.

~Phyllis