Question re "little hint" in Book 2 of what is yet to come

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No: HPFGUIDX 101472

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lifeavantgarde" 
<musicofsilence at h...> wrote:
> I've heard rumors about this "little hint" but have yet to see the 
> actual interview in which JKR actually makes this comment...
> 
> But if we're speculating:

Entropy:

Okay, just thought I'd throw this one into the mix.  After reading 
Order of the Phoenix, it struck me that the "little thing" may have 
been related to OOP's Legilimency classes. 

There's this discussion between Dumbledore and Harry (COS, ch. 12):

" 'I must ask you, Harry, whether there is anything you'd like to 
tell me,' he said gently. 'Anything at all.' Harry...thought of 
Malfoy shouting 'You'll be next, Mudbloods!'..Polyjuice 
Potion...Moaning Myrtle's bathroom...then he thought of the 
disembodied voice...and his growing dread that he was somehow 
connected with Salazar Slytherin."

A similar question is asked by Professor Dippet to Tom Riddle during 
the diary flashback. And interestingly (warning: movie contamination 
ahead!) it is Dumbledore who asks both Harry and Tom the exact same 
question in the COS movie.

Dumbledore's question surely brought Harry's most secret and guarded 
thoughts right up to the surface, where Dumbledore could easily "see" 
them. In effect, it is like telling someone not to think of a pink 
elephant; of course, all they can then think of is a pink elephant. 

This adds to my growing suspicion that Dumbledore may be using 
legilimency on Harry more that he knows (much more subtlely that 
Snape would, of course), and that Dumbledore may, in fact, know lots 
more about Harry's movements throughout Hogwarts than he's let on.

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