[HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore is Ron?

[GulPlum]

No: HPFGUIDX 53350

Andrea wrote:

>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.  :)

I just had a thought, which makes the picture even better. What kills (the 
real) Dumbledore? Of course! Ron landing on him! Well, not literally, as 
wizards are made of stronger stuff than us Muggles, but it's Ron's arrival 
which *causes* the accident. Perhaps he appears in front of a bolting horse 
which tramples Albus?

How would Ron feel about *that*!? Not only should Dumbledore not be dead, 
but it's Ron's own impetuousness which caused him to die!

>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.

Not only that, but at the time he appears, he discovers that Albus 
Dumbledore wasn't a very good student and barely completed the Hogwarts 
curriculum; he had very little in the way of skill or talent and very poor 
prospects. In other words, had the real Albus gone on, he really wouldn't 
have been able to stand up to Voldemort.

>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... :)

So, Ron's got the glory he saw represented in the Mirror of Erised, the 
whole series has a happy (yet sad) end, and everyone lived happily ever 
after. But do Ron and a 130 years younger Hermione still hook up? :-)

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

Same here...

Time for a proper acronym, I think, Any ideas, anyone?

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GulPlum AKA Richard, off to bed with a grin on his face