Dumbledore's handwriting

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 133857

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "amythevivaciousone" 
<amythevivaciousone at y...> wrote:
> smilinggator wrote:
> 
> >One thing that has stuck out in my mind is the description of
> >Dumbledore's handwriting as "thin" and "slanting". In PS/SS, his
> >handwriting in the note he wrote to Harry when he gave him his
> >father's invisibility cloak was "loopy" and "narrow". If you 
compare
> >the handwriting, the only thing that is the same is DD's signature 
> >in HBP and the handwriting of the note in PS/SS. 
> 
> >Maybe I am just being picky here, but then I came across Hagrid's
> >handwriting in HBP, when he wrote to tell the kids of Aragog's 
>death.
> >It looked exactly the same as it had in POA when he wrote about
> >Buckbeak's impending execution and in PS/SS when he invited Harry 
> >over
> >for afternoon tea. So, why has DD's handwriting changed?
> 
> Good point!  I was taking a course in handwriting analysis this 
summer 
> and my teacher actually pointed out how JKR used handwriting in her 
> books to sublty point out things - supposedly over in Europe 
> handwriting analysis is a big thing.  My teacher pointed out 
Percy's 
> signature in one of the books (can't remember which) and supposedly 
> his hooked Y can only mean one thing - that he is destined to be 
> either a criminal or simply evil.  (interesting - very interesting!)
> 
> But I noticed Dumbledore's changed handwriting too.  We'll have to 
> wait and see!
> 
> Amy

Well, this could be due to which hand is Dumbledore's writing hand.  
In HBP, Dumbledore's right hand is now blacked and dead.  I would 
think he could no longer write with that hand, if that was the hand 
he used before.

colebiancardi.