Knight 2 King--Hermione is McGonagall!

[vmonte]

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Julie wrote: 
And she wouldn't question Dumbledore wanting to place Harry where he 
belongs. Or even if she did question it, she'd do it using different 
words/argument than we see McGonagall use in the first book.


vmonte responds:
I reread the begining of book 1, the scene with Minerva and DD, and 
I'm starting to agree with both Julie and Helen.  DD seems to be 
working alone. 

I wonder if Ron transports himself back in time on purpose or if it 
some sort of accident? Maybe everyone will think that he is dead but 
he isn't (die Ron die theory).  If he was sent back accidently, then 
I wouldn't blame him for trying to change events whenever he could. 
In fact I could see Ron going back in time and being asked who he was 
and just saying "I'm... Dumbledore!"  (Just like Harry did on the 
Knight bus when he said he was Neville!) 

I agree with Helene that time travel will appear again and DD as Ron 
was something I also thought of (not as cleverly or intricately as 
her wonderful essay). 

The only other idea that came to my head instead of time travel was 
that perhaps that Dumbledore is a true Seer (not like Trelawney--who 
I still think is a fraud--In the U.S. there is a very popular psychic 
who speaks to the dead. The garbage this guy spews is just as 
nondescript and fits almost anyone.) 
I'm starting to think that the curse of time travelers and Seers is 
that in the long run they end up changing very little.  Perhaps this 
is why Dumbledore tells Harry that he was considering eliminating 
Divination as a school subject--because in the long run does it's not 
really useful or helpful.  It's almost like the mirror of Erised. 
(You get stuck in fantasy and you forget to live.) 
Voldemort would have done better to stick to the business of taking 
over the world instead of fixating on what amounts to a very 
nondescript--horoscope.  Voldemort is making the prophecy come true