Inside Dumbledore's Head (was Re: Prophets without Honour)

[sarcasticmuppet]

No: HPFGUIDX 79463

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "linlou43" <linlou43 at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> 
>  Kneasy wrote re. Dumbledore:
> 
> > I don't doubt but that he wants to defeat Voldemort, but I feel 
> there's 
> > more
> > to it. To go back to the chess analogy, Harry is a pawn, maybe a 
> knight,
> > no more. DD is the player. He will sacrifice a knight, if he has 
> to.
> > 
> > One of the joys of the books and the site is the chance to 
express 
> any
> > opinion, guess, hope or suspicion. Most of us will be wrong at the
> > conclusion. But I keep harking back to that JKR statement - the 
> one to
> > the effect that there's something more; something no-one has got 
> to the
> > heart of. That means it's open season for just about anything you 
> fancy.
> > I fancy Dumbledore is the one to watch.
> 
>      Excellent post Kneasy but I snipped most of it because the 
> ending caused a new thought to pop into my head. If, as many on the 
> list speculate, Dumbledore is to die in either book 6 or at the 
> beginning of book seven, does that mean that the role of chess 
> master would fall to Harry? Will he need to become calculating as 
> well, regadless of the outcoming for those he loves?
> 
>   just a thought, lionlou

Now me (Sarcasticmuppet):
I suspect that Dumbledore is already shifting the reins in Harry's 
direction.  He as good as told him that the Voldemort showdown is 
Harry's fight, not his.  And this might or might not fit in with the 
PuppetmasterDumbledore! theory but only Jo knows what Dumbledore will 
do next.  I sort of imagine a final showdown scene in which Harry and 
Dumbledore burst into a room containing Voldemort and some DEs, 
Dumbledore does an "after you" gesture, takes care of the DEs, and 
leaves the room.