Where Was Dumbledore?

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 144576

La Gatta:
> It appears that Sr. Valle Inclan, ostensibly born in 1869 (well 
> maybe a *real* Valle Inclan *was* born in 1869...) led a somewhat 
> nebulous life up until 1895, when he settled in Madrid and startled 
> the residents thereof "por su extravagante vestimenta". 

Valky:
So far sounds right, as long as he wore plenty of ridiculous shades of
purple. :D



> Interestingly, at 
> some point thereafter, he sustained an injury to his right forearm 
> that necessitated its amputation.
> 
> After what sounds like an eccentric and highly entertaining career, 
> Valle Inclan ostensibly died, aged, white-haired, and missing part 
> of his right arm, at Santiago de Compostela in 1936.

Valky:
<raised eyebrow> Conveniently similar, I agree...

> 
> And two years, a tick, and a quiver later, Dumbledore is back in 
> London with two good arms, auburn hair, and a young wizard to start 
> on his way to Hogwarts. A young wizard who in this case, 
> conveniently, has no family and grew up in an orphanage.
> 
> But what do you do when you run across a promising young wizard in 
> the wilds of Latin America some time in the late nineteenth century, 
> and it's inconvenient to have him simply go "missing"? Well, you 
> pack him off to Hogwarts, don't you, and then step into his shoes, 
> use the intervening forty or so years to research Muggle society and 
> have a lot of fun generally, and when the time comes you do a 
> "phoenix"....
> And turn up two years later much youthened and ready for another 
> fifty-something years in the service of the Wizarding community, 
> until the time comes to do another "phoenix" and crop up somewhere 
> else in a couple of years....

Valky:
Am I assuming right that this is a Not-Dead!Dumbledore theory? Albeit
a little tongue in cheek, it's pretty good. Coming from someone who
bought the Saint Severus historical figure parallel too though, so
maybe it doesn't count for much <g>

OTOH we are getting beginning quite a conspicuous collection of
noteworthy historical dopplegangers to the HP cast, so maybe we rush
to skepticism too fast sometimes?

> 
> Well, it could have happened. Couldn't it?

Valky:
<g> Just for a lark, I am going to say yes. 

> 
> And lest you doubt that Sr. Valle Inclan had affiliations with  
> Magic, I leave you with this little nugget of his:
> 
> ROSA DE ALEJANDRIA

> I'm hoping someone out there can translate it for me. I did have a  
> go at it, but I'm no poet, and it's been many years since I studied 
> Spanish.
> 
> --La Gatta
>

Valky:
Don't mind if I do, being a bit of a poet myself. :) I have rearranged
and added to the lines of the translation and adjusted individual
nuances in some of the words to form logical sentences which IMO are
the equivalent of the intended meaning. You are quite welcome to
disagree ;D


Student of the secrets of magic(abracadabra)
my hand dispersed messages in the air
when [they're] falling, a beautiful word [forms?]
[that word is the]foundations of your puzzle/enigma
and light of your secret/mysterious one

Which is the law joined in new writings?
What is the chance that the dispersed/spread out signs will match?
What Science of magicians raised the figure and read the enigma?
Snake. Rose. Fire. 

Snake! Rose! Fire! So this is your accord:
three types of grace are fervently yours
In the heart of the monster [is] your allegory

It is found. Antonio the Hermit
fled, from your shelter by Alexandria
Antonio was holy, [Even] if she were a poet.


It does seem like something Dumbledore would write after all. :)


Valky