[HPforGrownups] What if Dumbledore never left?

[Jeremiah LaFleur]

No: HPFGUIDX 167388

I'm not sure if this has been dicussed here, but my friends and I are
re-reading all 6 books together and something came to my mind about
Dumbledore. All those times that he left the school at what seemed like the
most inappropiate time (example: SS when the trio ran into McGonagal and she
informed them that he was gone. OOTP when he vanished in his office) What if
he never left? He was the transfiguration teacher, so he could have easily
turned himself into a desk against the wall. If not, where was Dumbledore
all those times? And how did he know just when to show up? Could it be that
he was at Hogwarts the whole time and new what was going on?

cassandralee1120
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Jeremiah:
(After a long break in which he has re-read them all, too)...

I think you're onto something there, but I don't think that DD would lie
about going somewhere and then transfigure into a pillbox (or what have you)
and then tell Harry that he had left...

Sure, I think there are times he actually sticks around, but I'd say that if
DD says he had left then he really did. But there could be times he doesn't.

Sorry to be so vague but I'm trying to say that he most likely wouldn't lie
to Harry about something like leaving. He'd just tell him something like, "I
wasn't able to come down" or "I was preoccupied."


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