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

[mochajava13]

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Kneasy:
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.

Now Sarah:
Wow, I never thought about the chess analogy before, but this fits.  
And look at all the talk of chess we have in the books!  I agree 
almost 100 percent, except for this: Harry is the king of a chess 
game.  He can't be sacrificed, because if he is, the game is lost.  
The other side (here, Voldemort and his pure-blood only mania) has 
won.  We now know Dumbledore's view about Trelawney's prophecy: he 
thinks that Harry, and Harry alone, has the power to defeat 
Voldemort.  Only Harry can destroy Voldemort, and vice versa.  Kings 
of a chess game: capture the opponents king, and the game is won.  
If Harry gets captured, all is lost.

By the way, Dumbledore's not the oldest wizard we've encountered in 
the books: one of the OWL testers comments that he (or was it a 
she?) tested Dumbledore for Dumbledore's transfiguration NEWT.  
Dumbledore might be sippig on some elixir of life, but he is the age 
he appears to be.  

Sarah