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

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 109197

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?)


SSSusan:
Just playing devil's advocate here...DO we know for certain that DD 
didn't know SB/JP/PP were animagi?  IIRC, there are folks here who 
believe DD knew all about it all along.  In fact, I think Kneasy just 
posted his belief that DD knew Wormtail was PP all these years.  So 
I'd ask, do we KNOW DD didn't know they were animagi, or is this yet 
another bit of into DD's keeping close to the chest?

Siriusly Snapey Susan, who also gets a kick out of Flop's idea about 
the chocolate frog cards. :-)