Dropping out (was re: Ultimate and Last Bragging Rights)

[verosomm]

No: HPFGUIDX 171255

>  Eddie:
> 1. R&H are not only in robes, but dress robes.  I'm assuming this is
> because R&H were at some school function.  Graduation?  But I can
> imagine it being equally possible they are in dress robes because of
> Bill & Fleur's wedding.  But then why isn't Harry in dress robes
> too?

> CV:
> How do you know they are dress robes? I've examined the screen with
> the magnifying glass <snipped link> and they look torn, but
> otherwise normal. And it appears as if Hermione is wearing a shirt
> and pants under her robes. Is that what someone would wear under
> dress robes? Or do you have another reason to believe they are in
> dress robes?

CV- When Eddie says they are in dress robes, I assume he is referring to the UK Children's book cover... you can view it on mugglenet (or about 100 other places) at http://www.mugglenet.com/viewer/?image_location=/dhcovers/hp7childuk.jpg ... Hermione and Ron are wearing embellished, colored robes, while Harry's in plain, black ones.  To me this means Harry gets a green light on one of the Horcruxes and has to go after a Horcrux it immediately, which means he misses the wedding, and Hermione and Ron rush after him immediately after the ceremony or something.

Or maybe Harry is so heartbroken about Ginny that he gets to theBurrow, sees her beautiful and dressed in her gold bridesmaids' robes, and can't go through with staying, doesn't change into dress robes, and so starts the hunt early and Ron and Hermione come later but of course have no time to change out of their dress robes as Harry is now hours ahead of them.

I know these are fairly silly theories, but the fact remains that Harry's not dressed up and RH are, and I think it has to do with the wedding because I'm of the belief that none of the trio return to Hogwarts in DH as students, rather have Ginny (and possibly Luna, Neville and others) as their contact(s) there.  Of course, Harry didn't even tell McGonagall about the horcruxes as DD told him he could tell RH and Harry chose not to tell anyone else, so maybe he will stick with that and in order to have contacts who know the whole story, RH DO go back to Hogwarts while Harry goes on his quest.  But I think the trio will go and the contacts at Hogwarts will remain uninformed about the horcruxes till they and VD are destroyed/ defeated, lest Harry take the chance that VD practices occlumency or another method on the Hogwarts contacts.

Veronica