Dumbledore = Gospel (?)

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No: HPFGUIDX 114516


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, macfotuk at y... wrote:
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, K G <moonmyyst13 at y...> wrote:
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> <snip>
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> JKR has said to take what Dumbledore says as fact
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> <snip>
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> Has she? where? Not sure Kneasy would agree (nor I). I love 
> Dumbeldore, believe in Dumbeldore, would trust him above any other 
> wizard, but that doesn't mean he tells the truth, the whole truth 
> and nothing but the truth (especially if one includes never 'lying 
> by omission') - or has JKR *really* said otherwise? He's 
> the 'greatest wizard of our (any?) time' but that doesn't mean he's 
> perfect/infallible and I don't think JKR would ever claim this. Am 
> happy to be disavowed of this notion.

I believe the quote that is being referred to here is this:

 JKR:
Absolutely right, I find that all the time in the book, if you need to
tell your readers something just put it in her. There are only two
characters that you can put it convincingly into their dialogue. One
is Hermione, the other is Dumbledore. In both cases you accept, it's
plausible that they have, well Dumbledore knows pretty much everything
anyway, but that Hermione has read it somewhere. So, she's handy.

and later:

Does Dumbledore speak for you?
JKR:
Oh yes, very much so. Dumbledore often speaks for me



from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets DVD

February 2003

Interview with Steve Kloves and J.K. Rowling, Moderated by Lizo Mzimba




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