HUGE evidence for time-travelling Dumbledore

[Phil Boswell]

No: HPFGUIDX 102422

"hettiebe" <carol_sutcliffe at y...> wrote:
> I'm afraid this isn't entirely canon but please bear with me. In 
> Philosopher's Stone Dumbledore makes the comment about having been 
> put off Bertie Bott's Every-Flavour Beans by coming across a vomit 
> flavour one in his youth. Now, I've just been replaying the 
> Philopher's Stone game in which there is a side quest to collect 
> wizard cards and I remembered that Bertie Bott was on one of the 
> cards. I checked his dates and his card says that he was born in 
> 1935, at which time Dumbledore would have been around 85. Not 'in his 
> youth' even by wizard standards. So, unless a mistake has been made 
> in the game, Dumbledore MUST have gone back in time.
> Aha!!!

Not having seen the card in question, a side-question must be: is that
the Bertie Bott who actually invented the Beans, or could that have
been an earlier family member?

Back to the main issue:

When you're 150+, 85 must seem pretty youthful.

After all, that's nearly half Dumbledore's lifetime ago.

Look at all the things which have happened since: Grindelwald (sp?)
and Voldemort just for starters.

Also bear in mind that JKR has said (sorry, can't recall reference)
that she wrote Dumbledore so that he DOES NOT LIE. Anything said by DD
can be taken as JKR's voice "within the book". You might have to
unwrap a few million layers (like classical British sarcasm and vast
capacity for understatement) but nothing Dumbledore says is actually
False.

HTH HAND
-- 
Phil