[HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore's watch (was time travel is dangerous)

[Helen R. Granberry]

No: HPFGUIDX 89286

>From Carol:

Maybe, being an occlumens like Snape, he just conceals his surprise.
At any rate, he didn't know that Peter Pettigrew was alive. He
thought, along with everyone else, that Sirius Black was a murderer.
Had he known, he could have sent the dementors packing and saved Harry
from a nasty fifty-foot fall.

Carol

>From Helen:

JK Rowling: I don't want to say too much but Dumbledore is a very wise
man who knows that Harry is going to have to learn a few hard lessons to
prepare him for what may be coming in his life. He allows Harry to get
into what he wouldn't allow another pupil to do and he also unwillingly
permits Harry to confront things he'd rather protect him from. As people
who've read the Order of The Phoenix will know; Dumbledore has had to
step back from Harry to teach him some of life's harder lessons.

The thing is though... if Dumbledore is a Legilimens, he had to have
known that Peter was the traitor way back when. Whether or not he is
Ron, he knew anyway. 

As for the watch... There is a room in the Department of mysteries that
holds a three dimensional map of the solar system. Perhaps that controls
a time travel device, and you move the planets around to the position
they need to be in to get to the point in time you desire. 


Helen