Dumbledore in the Hog's Head

[junediamanti]

No: HPFGUIDX 81292

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "entropymail" 
<entropymail at y...>
> wrote:
> > Don't know why I never noticed this before. Let me know if it's 
been
> > mentioned. Dumbledore was the barman in the Hog's Head during that
> > first DA meeting:
> > 
> >> bboy_mn:
> 
> Pardon the attitude but how does a man with long hair and a beard
> disguise himself? ...with long hair and a beard? I think not.
> 
> How could a whole room full of students not recognise their 
headmaster?
> 
> Now if Dumbledore was trying to trick them, he would have vanished 
his
> beard and changed his hair color, THEN no one would have recognised
> him. It makes no sense for DUmbledore to disguise himself in a way
> that looks just like himself.
> 
> On the other hand, there is something fishy going on here, the 
comment
> that the barman looks oddly familar couldn't be there by accident;
> it's certainly not 'filler' for the scene. So it must mean 
something.
> 
> 
Or - are you aware just how poor teaching salaries are in the UK?  
Perhaps it is Dumbledore and he is forced to moonlight in order to 
make ends meet.  The bar job is a bit of realism intruding into the 
magic again.  That's why he disguises his appearance - he is 
embarassed.  Well you'd be wouldn't you.  Trying to appear all 
knowing, all wise when you have an overdraft the size of the national 
debt of a South American state and you have to moonlight to pay it 
off.

June