[HPforGrownups] Re: Horcruxes, the Prophesy, where Dumbledore goes, and other secrets

[Kemper]

No: HPFGUIDX 154139

> Kemper wrote:
> >
> > I'm not sure if anyone knows, but I'm a DD lives fan. Putting that
> > aside, I don't think the portraits of the past Headmasters denote a
> > Headmaster who is dead. IIRC, they are always referred to as 'past'
> > or 'former' Headmasters. To me, this suggests that a Headmaster could
> > retire and still have a portrait.
> >
>
>
> Tonks:
> Pouring a cup of tea for Kemper. I hate to break this to you. Here is
> some Kleenex too. But it says on page 626 of the U.S. Scholastic
> version:
>
> "And a new portrait had joined the ranks of the dead headmasters and
> headmistresses of Hogwarts: Dumbledore was slumbering in a golden frame
> over the desk, his half-moon spectacles pearched upon his crooked nose,
> looking peaceful and untroubled."
>
> 

Kemper now:
Tonks, thanks for the canon and the tissue, but the tea is a bit bitter.  I
think I'll sweeten it with a cube of sugar.  The scene is seen through a
Harry filter or are you saying the narrator is always accurately omniscient?

Kemper, sipping on the sweetened tea and offering Tonks a biscuit


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