cryptic remarks by DD at tower + the Dumbeldore making a horcrux NOT!

[wickywackywoo2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 134114

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "iiris_0" <jvarendonk at d...> wrote:

> One could say Dumbledore went for a drink and came back. However 
> not in the sense one would normally use the term. For normally one 
> would mean he went for a drink in a pub and come back to school 
> after that. In this case he did drink _something_ and he did came 
> back from _somewhere_, but not anything like you would normally 
> understand when talking about 'having a drink'.  As far as I know 
> the saying has nothing to do with amount of time or being 
> fashionable.
> 
I'll delurk too to agree with Iris's interpretation.  The American
version of "after a fashion" would be "in a way".  But there is still
an ambiguity to Dumbledore's words.  He "had a drink" after a fashion
- the potion, not a nice glass of whisky - that I understand.  But "I
came back - after a fashion" is not so clear to me.  Going somewhere
and coming back is, on the face of it, exactly what he did, but I
think that he's referring to what happened to him in the cave.  Did he
go somewhere when he drank the potion?  And how did he only come back
"after a fashion"?  It almost sounds as if he died.  Harry thought he
did for a moment - did he?

Wanda