DD not like himself - Horcrux Theory

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No: HPFGUIDX 135541

Tonks wrote:
> Here is my theory as to why DD does some things that are out of 
> character for him.  The thing that gets to me the most is the way 
he 
> keeps saying how smart he is, and this is not the humble man that 
I 
> know DD to be. 

**Marcela now:  While I can see your point -yes there are times in 
which Dumbledore is very humble-, there are also times in which he 
was shown as someone whom is very smart "and" knows about it.  I am 
not going to give you quotes, but if you recall the books fairly 
well, you'll remember that:

- in PS/SS Dumbledore praised himself in front of Harry, in his 'end-
of-year' cozy chat with him.  He said something like "if I may say 
so, putting the Stone in the Mirror was one of my most brilliant 
ideas, etc."
- in OoTP, in the MoM scene, the statues clapped after he duelled 
Voldemort... Hadn't he charmed them to do his bidding?

In many other scenes with Fudge, Skeeter, Karkaroff, Malfoy, etc. 
Dumbledore sounded very condescending of their beliefs --deeply 
understandable IMO, but nonetheless, he wasn't showing 'humility' 
per se.
I don't think I found DD's behaviour so OOC to think that he was 
channeling a part of Voldemort after he'd broken the ring horcrux...

Marcela