[HPforGrownups] The Look Of Triumph

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 159490

>> Magpie:
>> But wouldn't Dumbledore have to have then told Harry that in HBP
>> when he's
>> telling him about Horcruxes?
>>
>> As much as I know Albus likes to withold information as long as
>> possible,
>> and this time probably wound up dying before he got to reveal many
>> things
>> (as the old man with the beard tends to do in these stories!) I
>> don't think
>> he'd pretend to consider other Horcruxes if his look of triumph was
>> over the
>> Harrycrux's destruction.

Katherine Coble:
> I think he probably just didn't want to burden Harry with that
> knowledge at the time.  He didn't think he was going to die, and
> probably thought he'd have other chances to break the hard facts to
> him.   Dumbledore's been nothing but stingy with Harry regarding
> harsher realities.

Magpie:
But isn't this good news, not a harsh reality?  It means there's one less 
Horcrux to destroy, right? So why would Dumbledore be pretending that there 
was another one Harry had to find?

-m