[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore's Hand (Was Re: Snape in HBP, a draft theory)

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 133229

vividscribbler wrote:


> Good luck,
> Viv
> 
> On a side note: In the scene above, Dumbledore is wearing
> Voldemort's old ring, the one he removed the spell from and lost his
> hand to. Slughorn visibly notices it. Later on in the same passage
> of above, in reference to the ring, it says, "Slughorn's eyes
> lingered for a moment on the right too, and Harry saw a tiny frown
> momentarily crease his wide forehead." Later in the book, on page
> 494, ch 23, we see Voldemort wearing that same ring while he sits
> chatting in Slughorn's office before he corners him about the
> Horcruxes. Dumbledore must have worn it then, after he'd disabled
> it, to get a reaction out of Slughorn or to see if he recognized it.
> I wonder if he got what he was looking for.

KJ writes
   I think Dumbledore wore it as a reminder that he knew something about 
horcruxes and that Voldemort would certainly be looking for him.  Sluggy 
was on the run for a reason. If V believed that he was the only person 
who knew that he had been asking about horcruxes as a youth, he would 
have been at the top of the list of Voldies things to do.
KJ