Horcruxes, the Prophesy, where Dumbledore goes, and other secrets

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 154141

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 dea headmasters 
> > and headmistresses of Hogwarts

Kemper now:

> The scene is seen through a Harry filter 
> or are you saying the narrator is always accurately omniscient?

houyhynhnm:

Of course they were all dead in 1997.  Dumbledore had been Headmaster 
for some 40 years by that time.  Continuing with Kemper's Supreme 
Court analogy, most Heads probably do leave office horizontally.  But 
that doesn't mean there has *never* been a Head who retired, in which 
case there would be a portrait on the wall while its subject was still 
alive.