Understanding Snape

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No: HPFGUIDX 153923

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "houyhnhnm102" <celizwh at ...>
wrote:
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>> houyhnhnm:
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> It seems to me that either Snape contacted Dumbledore or
> Dumbledore was staying in very close communication with Snape
> during his disappearance, closer than with the rest of the Order.
>
> Any wild speculation about where DD may have been?
> He said he wasn't going to Grimmauld Place and that
> he wasn't going into hiding.  Where did he go?

Lilygale:
Wasn't Dumbledore gathering information about Tom Riddle and
Horcruxes during the time he was away from Hogwarts?  When HBP opens
in August, Dumbledore already has found and destroyed the Ring
Horcrux.  My impression is that he spent his time collecting and
analyzing
 memories, and delving into Horcruxes, both theory (e.g. how to
destroy) and practice (what would Tom choose, where might they be).
Not sure if there is canon for this, but he must have spent a great
deal of time getting "up to speed" for the events of HBP.

Lilygale