Fishing for ideas

[Phil Boswell]

No: HPFGUIDX 101565

K G <moonmyyst13 at y...> wrote:
> I have some questions to throw out to the group - kind of a fishing
> trip - so to speak....
[snip]
> We have had a lot lately about Ron=DD.  I tend to lean toward
> Percy=DD.  The name is in there.  Percy will do something now that
> he is with the MoM  that he feels that he needs to go back and fix. 
> Any ideas?


Just got to jump in here in response to all these theories about
Dumbledore being someone from the present day sent back in time ...

Since the examiner in OOP (forget the name) recalls testing him for
his NEWTs, particularly Transfiguration IIRC, it would have to be
someone young enough to enter Hogwarts and work their way through, or
surely *someone* would notice his sudden appearance!

A personal thing, perhaps, but I am getting rather tired of people
trying to spatchcock their own favourite SF-nal device (time travel in
this instance) into the Harry Potter books no matter whether it makes
any sense at all.

If people put as much effort into figuring out how things could be
done *without* invoking excessive manipulation of time, which we have
been warned is *massively* dangerous and to be avoided at all costs,
I'm sure we could have some sparkling new theories to consider.

For the record, I have a mini-theory about Dumbledore's partial
omniscience having something to do with his Chocolate Frog Cards; plus
I rather wonder whether he could actually see the time-turned H&H
*through* the wall of Hagrid's hut?

Would anyone have a problem with the idea that Dumbledore might have a
kind of internal "Marauders' Map" and be hyper-aware of where people
were in Hogwarts? Just as a quick example, how *did* he know that
Harry was visiting the "Mirror of Erised" in the first place.

HTH HAND
-- 
Phil