Dumbledore is Ron?

[Andrea]

No: HPFGUIDX 53349

--- GulPlum wrote:
> I've not participated in this thread yet (I find the idea fascinating 
> although utterly preposterous but have ZERO arguments to propose against

> it!) :-)

Hee!  I've been in the same boat.  I think it's a REALLY interesting and
disturbingly compelling theory.  I keep thinking someone's about to find
something to completely disprove it, but no one HAS yet!

> One correction: Ron goes back as a 17 year-old (-ish) and thus would
> have 
> appeared in the mid-19th century as a 17 year-old. Assuming the identity
> of 
> a (not otherwise existent?) Albus Dumbledore would probably not have
> been 
> difficult as there was lots of social upheaval at the time. Perhaps he 
> hooked up with Nicolas Flamel very quickly and came clean about who he
> is...

I think the best take on just HOW Timetraveling!Ron becomes Dumbledore is
that when he first arrives in the past, he somehow meets up with a young
Albus Dumbledore, fresh out of Hogwarts.  There's some kind of accident
and Albus is killed.  Ron starts freaking out, of course, because while he
may not know all the rules of time travel, he durn well knows that
DUMBLEDORE should NOT be dead!!  This is going to ruin the entire course
of the future!  Ron Weasley just delivered the world to Grindelwald,
Voldemort, or both.  Horror, sob.  :)

But then...Ron notices that there's already a strong resemblance between
the two of them, and with a little fixing here and there...RON could
become Dumbledore!  It's a radical idea, but...well, Ron already KNOWS
what happened, so even though he's not the powerful wizard Dumbledore was,
that might give him the edge to keep history on track like it should be. 
So Ron dons the violet robes and becomes Albus Dumbledore.

Of course, by the time 130-odd years have passed and the date of his
original departure is drawing near, Ron!Dumbledore has realized that he
was always MEANT to go back and take over for the other Dumbledore.  So
after YoungRon gets transported back in time and Voldemort gets destroyed
by a Harry driven nearly mad by grief, everyone's regrouped at the Weasley
home to mourn Ron's death while everyone else in the world is celebrating
Voldemort's demise.  Dumbledore shows up, eyes twinkling, and asks why
they're so upset.  "Ron might have died a hero, but he still DIED!" "Ah,
but he didn't die.  Well, not yet."  And Ron!Dumbledore explains the whole
story... :)

Ah, I'm liking this theory more and more. *g*


Andrea

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