About Dung...

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 94975

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "klmf1" <KLMF at a...> wrote:
> Sorry if this has been discussed ad nauseum---I haven't been able 
to follow 
> this group for the past few months.
> 
> Mundungus--on my umpteenth time thru book 5 it occured to me that 
Dung 
> was already in the Hogshead when Harry & Co. entered (he was 
dressed as 
> the veiled witch).  HOW did he know to be there?  Or did I miss 
something 
> obvious?
> 
> K

Meri answers: 
I would guess that DD knew pretty much from the beginning what HRH 
and the rest of the DA were up to, no matter how secretive they were 
trying to be. After all, DD doesn't need an invisibility cloak to 
become invisible. So he probably knew the date, time and location of 
the DA meeting pretty early on. But also, Fletcher is a pretty shady 
character, and is probably used for more covert operations. If I was 
DD and I wanted to do everything in my power to protect Hogwarts, I 
would keep one of my most trusted spies in the Hog's Head, anyway, 
just because of its shady reputation. You never know what you might 
accidentally overhear there. Barely a sickel's worth of thought, but 
it is, after all, a Friday afternoon. 
Meri - who thinks that there is an even bigger espionage operation 
going on then we yet know about.