Remember My Last - SPOILER
Tonks
tonks_op at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 7 05:23:56 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 115048
JKR said on her website:
"So: Dumbledore is referring to his last letter, which means, of
course, the letter he left upon the Dursleys' doorstep when Harry
was one year old. But why then (you may well ask) did he not just
say 'remember my letter?' Why did he say my last letter? Why,
obviously because there were letters before that
Now let the speculation begin, and mind you type clearly, I'll be
watching
P.S. It has been suggested that I am wrong in saying that
Dumbledore's last letter was the one he left on the doorstep with
baby Harry, and that he has sent a letter since then concerning
Harry's illegal flight to school. However, both Dumbledore and I
differentiate between letters sent to the Dursleys as a couple, and
messages directed to Petunia ALONE. And that's my final word on the
subject - though I doubt it will be yours :)"
Tonks now:
So the letter that he left with Harry that night was to PETUNIA. I
assumed all of this time that it was addressed to both of the
Dursleys, but it was not. And there were other letter before that
one. So this is telling us something.. perhaps Dumbledore, as I
mentioned before, knew that LV would try to kill Harry and that Lily
would give her life to invoke the ancient magic (charm). It was
arranged by DD and Lily and probably Neville's mother too, in case
LV came for Neville first. I think someone else mentioned that DD
probably wrote to Petunia to prepare her for the possibility. But
again he calls her Petunia every time. So he must have know her long
ago when she was a child and her sister was going to Hogwarts.
Humm... what does it all mean? Where is that 6th book?!!! (I am
going to have to learn to bi-locate so I can peek over JKR's
shoulder while she writes!)
Tonks_op
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