Dumbledore and Hedwig

[Amey Chinchorkar]

No: HPFGUIDX 109536

-	Cassin
-	Has anyone seen Hedwig and Dumbledore in the same place at the same
-	time?

Amey:
Frankly, I don’t believe “Dumbledore is Hedwig” theory, but still I am in particular mood to argue with someone today. So here goes


-	From: "meriaugust" <meriaugust at yahoo.com>
-	1: We have no concrete evidence that DD is in fact an animagus.

Amey:
How many unregistered Animagus are there in ground? 4 at least till now. Lack of evidence does not mean absence of it in WW, sometimes it means it will surface later.

-	2: If Hedwig is DD, then DD would be with Harry practically all
-	summer, meaning that he wouldn't be at Hogwarts, wouldn't be
-	vacationing, nothing. He'd either be running letters for Harry or be
-	locked up at the Dursley's house by Uncle Vernon. Surely someone
-	would have come to rescue DD from that prediacament. 

Amey:
We don’t have any canon that he goes on vacations, either. Also, why would he want someone to come and rescue him? “He has means to watch Harry, more closely than Harry imagines”. What better than being with him all the time? Also, he can get out of the house with letters Harry gives and then hand it to his oen Snow owl
 to be handed over to the addressee. Quite ingenious, totally Dumbledorish


-	3: What would be the purpose of DD being Hedwig? So he can keep an
-	eye on Harry?

Amey:
Exactly. Harry is important, irrespective of whatever Snape says.
-	4: Also, Hagrid picked out Hedwig from the Eyelops Owl Emporium. Was
-	DD just sitting there waiting to be picked up by Hagrid? IIRC,
-	Hagrid decided at the very last minute to buy Harry Hedwig, and
-	after that Hedwig was at Privet Drive with Harry till term started.
-	With all that was going on at Hogwarts that year, DD would surely
-	have been missed.

Amey:
Hmm
 here I am at a loss. But then, Hagrid told Dumbledore that they were going to buy Harry’s school things, so he had time. Or better still, he switched with the real Hedwig in after Harry arrived in school.

-	So, in conclusion, I do not believe that DD=Hedwing, but am fully
-	willing to eat my words if I be proven wrong.
-	Meri, who also doesn't buy the Ron=DD theory, either...

Amey:
I also don’t believe Ron=Dumbledore. Ron is not genious enough or crack enough. But then Hedwig is suspiciously even clever for an owl. We have many people telling Harry "Very smart owl you've got there,”. Suspicious, of course. If you want to keep abreast JKR, you have to see any whiff of suspicion as a full proof. 
I wouldn’t be surprised if Hedwig is (at least sometimes) Dumbledore (channeling his spirit???) or somebody else recruited to keep an eye on Harry. (Rowena Ravenclaw anybody??)

Amey




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