[HPforGrownups] Re: CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 27, The Centaur and the Sneak

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 113957

Hannah says:

>Hannah now: This comment of DD's has always interested me.  It seems
>like the one time when he says something that isn't strictly true.
>He says he's not going into hiding - yet we see and hear no more of
>him until the night of the DoM.  Umbridge has no idea where he is
>although she is trying quite determindly to find out, presumably
>Fudge doesn't either... so if they are trying to find him and can't,
>then he must be hiding.

Not necessarily.  If they are trying to find him and can't, then they must 
not be looking in the right place.  I personally think the person who 
suggested that he was at the Hog's Head -- whether or not his brother is in 
fact the bartender -- was probably right.  (Umbridge:  "Dumbledore won't be 
sitting in a tavern while the entire Ministry of Magic is looking for him!")

He could, if it comes to that, have been somewhere in Hogwarts all the time; 
he may not know everything about Hogwarts but I'm perfectly certain he knows 
more about it than Fudge or Umbridge, and could hide from them without 
difficulty.  All he'd have to do would be avoid being seen by Mrs. Norris or 
Filch -- the portraits and ghosts were all on his side.  But wherever he 
was, I'm sure it was someplace "in plain sight," but somewhere he knew the 
MoM wouldn't think to look.

And I agree that he didn't do very well by Sirius by leaving him cooped up 
in that horrible house. But I don't think it was arrogance -- Dumbledore has 
a lot on his mind, and probably just wanted Sirius someplace safe where he 
wouldn't get arrested, killed, sent to Azkaban, or kissed by Dementors.

>Hannah, for whom 'DD resists arrest' is one of the best scenes in
>OotP.

Absolutely.


Janet Anderson

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