[HPforGrownups] Re: SILK GOWNS

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No: HPFGUIDX 79396

In a message dated 8/31/2003 9:26:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, Erin writes:

>  It occurs to me in reading this that perhaps Dumbledore's being the 
> only other adult interested in candy is significant.  Maybe there is 
> a clue to a connection here.  Just what kind of connection it would 
> be I'm not certain... but I'm sure everyone who's in favor of the 
> ColdheartedSpymaster!Dumbledore (MAGIC DISHWASHER) theory will want 
> to take note.

Has anyone ever read the book Sophie's World (not to be confused with 
Sophie's Choice)? It's a great piece of fiction/nonfiction about the history of 
philosophy, basically, but I bring it up right now because this post reminded me of 
one of the key messages of the book: Children are the best philosophers. They 
are wisest because, to them, anything is still possible. When we age, we 
become jaded and we learn that certain things (like your dinner cooking itself or 
your dog flying around the room) just aren't possible. But children are still 
capable of really, truly thinking anything is possible. I sort of view DD this 
way, partially because of his love of children and candy, etc. I wonder if 
the fact that DD and the Longbottoms *are* the only adults to have been put 
together with sweets shows that these people are especially wise and have 
extraordinary knowledge. It would certainly go along with the theory that the 
Longbottoms are being kept insane because they are a real threat to the DEs.

Brief Chronicles


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