Dumbledore is Ron, oh yes he is

[brinforest]

No: HPFGUIDX 53315

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "gingerssnap1966" 
<gingerssnap1966 at y...> wrote:
> One thing bothers me:  Hermione went on and on about how they must 
> not be seen.  Dumbledore and Ron see each other quite a bit.  
> Dumbledore also knows Molly and Arthur.  Wouldn't they have 
noticed a 
> family resemblance?  Especially if they've noticed it in Ron?  
> 
> Although.... it did strike me that when Ron was standing by the 
> Shreiking Shack in PoA whilst Invisible!Harry was teasing Malfoy 
and 
> company, Ron made the comment " 'very haunted up here, isn't it?' 
> with the air of one commenting on the weather."  It sounds like 
> Dumbledore on several occasions when he knows what is going on and 
> someone else is losing their cool.  He just smiles and makes a 
bland 
> comment betraying his amusement.
> 
> AAAAAAAARGH! NO! The vortex!  I'm being sucked into the vortex!
> 

A warm welcome to you from a fellow vortex-dweller! :)

I feel like I've almost said everything I can about pisk's wonderful 
theory, but can't help going on. Somebody *stop* me! :)

About the being seen, I wanted to say that IMO the danger in being 
seen only applies to those who can be easily recognized. Dumbledore 
is 150 years old. With all due respect, a person that old looks old 
more than they look anything else. I'd say nobody we have actually 
met in the books so far has any way of knowing what Dumbledore 
looked like even in his forties or fifties, let alone his teens! Oh -
 oh - it just hit me!!! When did he come to teach at Hogwarts, I'd 
like to know? The *ghosts*! (incoherent muttering)

Well, anyway, perhaps he was already on the old side when he started 
teaching at Hogwarts. When it comes to Molly and Arthur, I don't 
think this is the kind of thing that occurs to you. I assume they've 
known Dumbledore since they went to school themselves, so to them, 
he has always been there, and been very old. I think it would be 
very unlikely that they would look at their youngest son, the second 
closest thing they have to a *baby*, and think he looks amazingly 
like their dear old ancient headmaster, blue eyes or not! :)

And the almost same thing goes for everyone else, Ron included. No 
matter what you say about Ron, I don't think his imagination is 
*that* wild. He would never ever in a million years just look at 
Dumbledore and suddenly shout: "Oh my gosh, that's me!" 

Now that we have your worries out of the way, hopefully :), let me 
thank you for the great bit of PoA - definitely has a ring to it, 
doesn't it? And let me share this one bit one more time. For some 
reason, this is what gets me the most - not because of any proof 
value whatsoever, oh no. It's just that when I first read this after 
being exposed to pisk's post, I got the Feeling: This. Is. Ron.

(PS/SS Ch.1 p.12: Dumbledore has laid baby Harry gently on the 
Dursleys' doorstep and McGonagall and Hagrid have left.)

Dumbledore turned and walked back down the street. On the corner he
stopped and took out the silver Put-Outer. He clicked it once, and
twelve balls of light sped back to their street lamps so that Privet
Drive glowed suddenly orange and he could make out a tabby cat 
slinking around the corner at the other end of the street. He could 
just see the bundle of blankets on the step of number four.

"Good luck, Harry," he murmured. He turned on his heel and with a 
swish of his cloak, he was gone.


Brin