TT altering DD's memory. Ouch again!

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 124210


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "northsouth17"
<northsouth17 at y...> wrote:
> 
> DD knows he sent H&H back though. When they show up outside the
> door, he knows that 3 hours have passed for them from a moment ago 
> when he saw them. He knows, or at least asusmes, that since they're 
> alive and well, they acted according to the plan that he hinted at 
> and that Sirius has escaped with Buckbeak. It annoys me that he was 
> so cryptic though. Couldn't he have saved some, uh, more time and 
> just said "Rescue Buckbeak, fly to the windows, rescue Sirius?" 
> 
> Northsouth

bboyminn:

What we have here is a case of 'plausible deniability'. 

In other words, if questioned after the fact, Dumbledore can deny that
he told Harry and Hermione to do anything, and claim that he was
completely unaware of their indended actions, and did nothing to
encourage those action.

For example, if questioned in court, Dumbledore can claim that his
statement that 'what we need is more time' was just a general lament
that there wasn't more time to investigate what happened.

You heard it here first.

Steve/bboyminn