Dumbledore's watch (was time travel is dangerous)

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No: HPFGUIDX 89066

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Berit Jakobsen" 
<belijako at o...> wrote:
> snip> 
> Yes, DD knows a lot, and can usually make quite good EDUCATED 
GUESSES 
> as to what might happen (and especially what the enemy is up to). 
But 
> that's something completely different.
> 
> Example: At the end of GoF, when Harry and Cedric is transported 
back 
> to the maze by the portkey, Impostor!Moody drags Harry away from DD 
> to his office to finish Harry off. When DD, McGonagall and Snape 
come 
> to Harry's rescue a few minutes later, just in time to prevent him 
> getting killed, DD explains WHEN he understood Mad-Eye Moody was 
not 
> the one he pretended to be: When he saw Moody take Harry away from 
> DD's presence. The real Moody would never have done that. So DD 
puts 
> two and two together and makes an educated guess. And he turned out 
> to be right. This story doesn't make much sense if DD knew Moody 
was 
> not Moody all along. If DD knew, then he is nothing more than a 
very 
> SICK person :-)
> 
> Berit
> http://home.no.net/berjakob/snape.html

I agree with you that Dumbledore does not know everything that is 
going on.  I too believe that if Dumbledore could have stopped 
anything bad from happening, especially the death of Cedric and the 
return of Voldemort, he would have.  The watch to me is not 
definitive proof that Dumbledore is traveling through time, only that 
there is something happening we do not yet understand.  Much like the 
instruments in his office, JKR has purposely not given us all of the 
information.  There has always been method to Dumbledore's "madness". 
In other words, he doesn't wear a watch with 12 hands because he 
likes the way it looks.

Sue