Chocolate frog cards (was: How DD knows where they are)

[drliss at comcast.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 109151

Flop:

So, how much of a stretch is it to think that DD may
KEEP a copy of his own chocolate frog card, allowing
him to check up on the others. Granted, he may not
always SEE a lot, but I'm sure he'd HEAR plenty from
various collectors' pockets!

There IS one passage in PS/SS that could be
interpreted to support this. When Harry first gets his
DD chocolate frog card, DD gets a good look at him,
vanishes from the card, and then returns moments later
"sidled back into the picture on his card and gave him
a small smile." (SS 103). I know it's not much, but as
I see it, DD on the card has just gone to report to
REAL DD that he's seen Harry, he's on the train, and
everything is going according to plan.


Lissa:

I actually really, really, really like this theory!  In addition to simply cracking me up, it sounds like something DD would do.

The only question I have (and this is easily answered) is we do know there's at least one big thing that DD doesn't know: that Sirius, James, and Peter became Animagi.  (I'm guessing he spys more on his students than the rest of Great Britian.)  But hey- maybe he wasn't on the cards by then.  Or maybe they didn't make the cards yet.  Or maybe the boys weren't into chocolate.  (For all that Lupin is portrayed as a chocoholic, he never actually EATS the stuff in the books, does he?)

Liss

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