Dumbledore & Harry's security

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No: HPFGUIDX 80537

> I believe you are correct, theredshoes86, and I think I can prove 
> it. Based on what I know of J.K. and her writing style, I know that 
> she scrutinizes over every name in her books, and each has 
> double, or even tripple meanings. (to see what I mean, try and 
> find out about the symbolic meanings of Lilies and Petunias). I 
> never knew what "Dumbledore" meant until I read "THe 
> Mysteries and Secrets of Harry Potter" (the reason I got "Hooked 
> on Harry" in the first place, an awesome read, I highly 
> recommend it). The book says that Dumbledore means 
> "bulmblebee" in olde english. What does this have to do with 
> anything? Piece of proof #2: Riddle says that Dumbledore was 
> his transfiguration teacher. McGonagall is the current teacher, 
> and she can turn into a cat. It seems to imply that in order to 
> teach Transfigurastion, you must be able to transfigure yourself. 
> Since Riddle would have no reason to lie abut which class 
> Dumbledore taught, I am assuming (for the time being) that we 
> can trust him on htis one. I can only conclude that Dumbledoe 
> can turn into a bee, if not some kind of insect. Re-read and note 
> all of the instances when Harry or someone else hears a bug 
> (and it may not be Rita Skeeter). If you ask me, this would be a 
> guise fit for the omniscient professor. Who would suspect a fly in 
> their room of being the ever-present Headmaster?

Great idea - only thing that occurs to me is that Hermione has looked 
up the registered animagi and didn't mention Dumbledore - he could be 
an unofficial one like Rita Skeeter and james, Lupin, sirisu and 
Pettigrew of course...would dumbledore risk that?  Probably...
but I have been wondering how he has been watching Harry 'more 
closely than you could ever know' - above and beyond just teachers 
reporting back to him on how he was getting on in class - afterall, 
there are rarely any teachers in the Gryffindor Commonroom, which is 
where much of the deductions about Harry being happy/stressed/upset  
could be made.
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