Dumbledore's death

[dewey_demon]

No: HPFGUIDX 134401

auruor wrote:

> > > just a wild idea, does any one else think that Dumbleore 
> > > saying "oho" in the cave was unusual. It is an expression used 
> > > several times by Slughorn. 

Blulioness replied:

> This was something I missed untill a certain person pointed it out 
> to me. The use of 'oho' in the cave was either an error on JK's 
> part, a deliberate mistake to get us thinking or maybe it was 
> Slughorn

Dewey Demon now chips in:

A more mundane explanation, which I'm sorry to say has no backup from 
canon, follows.  When you spend time around people with distinctive 
catchphrases and modes of expression, you tend to pick them up 
yourself to a certain extent.  Work colleagues, fellow Big Brother 
<shudder> housemates and the like.  It's possible that 
Slughorns' 'oho' somehow lodged itself in Dumbledore's mind and he 
uses it here.  I've certainly found myself saying something and then 
thinking 'that's not my word, that's Rachel's word' or whatever.

David/Dewey Demon