If DD knows, then why...? [was: Snape, trying very hard not to smile?]

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 93947

Sue wrote: 
> > ...DD knows what is in the Chamber.  He was there before, he knew 
> > Hagrid didn't open the Chamber and it doesn't take a genius 
> > (okay, maybe Hermione is a genius, but so is DD) to figure it 
> > out.  Especially after living through seeing TM become Voldie.  
> > He certainly wasn't keeping his talent for conversing with snakes 
> > a secret later in his life.  ...a little chat with a certain 
> > teenaged ghost in the girls' bathroom and voila! Mystery solved.
 
Eloise replied:
> Yeess.....
> This *is* puzzling. Why the heck didn't Dumbledore do something 
> about it if he had all the clues there? He knew Tom Riddle opened 
> the Chamber the first time. He knew where Myrtle died and that he 
> could interview her. He *should* know. He also knows that Harry is 
> hiding information from him, or possibly more than that. He may 
> actually know the nature of what Harry is hiding from him. Why on 
> earth doesn't he share what he knows with Harry, find out about the 
> voice he's hearing and tackle Tom and the Basilisk himself?

Susan:
Other than the (admittedly very weak) possibility that, again, DD is 
**allowing** Harry to be tested, to develop skills, I've not got a 
clue.

THEN ELOISE SAID:
> I hate to be a wet blanket, but mystery and adventure book plots 
> frequently hang on the necessity of people not asking the right 
> questions (Harry, anyone?) or not putting two and two together 
> until the right point. Dumbledore's near omniscience and superior 
> intelligence are a bit of a handicap in this respect.

Susan:
This is an EXCELLENT point, Eloise.  I think as a group we spend 
**so** much time thinking, analyzing, wondering, permutating [verb?], 
a-ha'ing, theorizing, and looking for flints [what *is* the origin of 
that word, btw?], that it's no WONDER we find gaps in logic or things 
which don't seem to add up.  In my book, given the sheer size of 
canon, it's a wonder we don't find more!


Sue also wrote:
> Many people
> have suggested (Sorry, I don't have the post #'s, I'm just not up to
> that much research.) that Snape used the Dueling Club to "out" Harry
> as a Parselmouth.

Susan:
Can I show that I've likely got a bad case of movie contamination 
here?  [Eeeek!!]  *Do* we know that Snape told Draco to use the 
serpentsorcia spell [I've butchered that spelling]??  It's certainly 
not clear in the movie and I don't have my book here to check.

Siriusly Snapey Susan...who's rushing out the door, so please forgive 
boo-boos.