The Cave and the Tower

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No: HPFGUIDX 134269

Julie H. / urghiggi wrote: <snip>

> Similarly, at the tower, in the talk with draco, Dumbledore says 
he came back to hogwarts 
> "after a fashion" and that "yes and no," Draco's plan to lure him 
there worked. I am still 
> trying to figure out this hedging, since on the face of it, he DID 
clearly come back and the 
> plan DID work. So what's with the cryptic language?


**Marcela now:  Draco believed what Mme.Rosmerta had told him, that 
DD was seen by himself in Hogsmeade and that he was going to have a 
drink at the Hog's Head.  (Dumbledore had met her, remember? and 
said that his mood was for less noisy/crowdy atmosphere).

So, when Draco asked that to Dumbledore, of course Dumbledore said 
that he had been gone and for a drink, "after a fashion".
The "yes and no" is a mock to Draco's plan, because Draco thought 
that setting off the Dark Mark would make DD rush back to the 
castle.  His plan worked, but not because Dumbledore saw the Mark 
and rushed to the castle.  DD happened to side-along apparate back 
to Hogsmeade with Harry at that precise moment.   Had the Cave 
mission taken longer, or Harry not being able to apparate them back, 
Draco's plan would not have worked.

I don't think that there's any cryptic language from Dumbledore in 
that scene with Draco.

Marcela