What does Slughorn knows about Dumbledore's injury? WAS: Re: CHAPDISC: HBP4
Claudia
mudblood68 at yahoo.de
Wed Nov 23 08:42:07 UTC 2005
No: HPFGUIDX 143392
> Alla:
...<snip>Slughorn first tells Dumbledore that he ought to think about
> retirement and THEN narrator says " his pale gooseberry eyes had
> found Dumbledore's injured hand" implies that Slughorn ALREADY
knows
> why DD may want to think about retirement. <snip>
Claudia:
I rather thought Slughorn's suggestion of DD's retirement was more of
a justification for his own retirement and had not so much to do with
DD's real state of health.
Alla:
<SNIP>
> When I read the book for the first time this chapter was one of
the
> main reasons why I did not even consider that DD injury could be
> serious.
Claudia:
It's so interesting how readers percieve the same text totally
different. Because for me it was clear after DD's injury was
mentioned the first time, that DD was going to die during the book.
This was confirmed for me when DD said he would teach Harry himself.
So after this chapter I "knew" DD would not survive book6.
On the other hand, since English is not my mothertongue, I may be
missing a lot of unspoken meaning within the text.
Claudia
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