[HPforGrownups] Two clues about the Tower from GoF

[Kemper]

No: HPFGUIDX 144689

pippin_999  wrote:
>
> Dumbledore grasps Harry's intentions, apparently by legilimency:
>
> "You will take Harry back to school, Hagrid," Dumbledore repeated firmly.
> "Take him right up to Gryffindor Tower. And Harry--I want you to stay
> there. Anything you might want to do -- any owls you might want to send
> --they can wait until morning, do you understand me?"
> "Er--yes," said Harry, staring at him. How had Dumbldore known that, at
> that very moment, he had been thinking about sending Pigwidgeon
> straight to Sirius, to tell him what happened?
>
> --GoF ch 28
>
> A non-verbal spell with an interesting effect:
>
> Voldemort slipped one of those unnaturally long-fingererd hands
> into a deep pocket and drew out a wand. He caressed it gently too;
> and then he raised it, and pointed it at Wormtail, who was lifted off
> the ground and thrown  against the headstone where Harry was
> tied; he fell to the foot of it and lay there, crumpled up and crying.
>
> GoF ch 33
>
> Of course it doesn't prove anything, but here we have direct canon
> where Harry's concrete intention is communicated to Dumbledore
> without words, and of a nonverbal spell that picks someone up
> and throws them into the air.

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Kemper now:
That's some excellent canon, but I think it can be argued that anyone
working with youth and worth their salt can anticipate near future behavior
based on the events of the right now.  Dumbledore has worked with youth for
what seems to be a muggle life-time.

However, there's no arguement for your canon nonverbal example that I can
think.  Beautiful.

-Kemper


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