What if...? - My last minute theory

[missvassy]

No: HPFGUIDX 172063

Miss Vassy, earlier:
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> Here goes with the theory: What if Dumbledore was the one who told
> Voldemort about the prophecy?

vmonte wrote:
>
> This from a post I made in 2005
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/137548
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>
> Dumbledore has been set-up by JKR to be almost Saint-like from the
> first book. But is he?
>
> In every book there is always someone who is revealed to be someone
> or something else. The good guys are the bad guys and vise versa;
> and people are always using polyjuice to change from one person to
> another.
>
> Moody is Crouch Jr., Harry and Ron are Crab and Goyle, Grab and
> Goyle are girls. Tom Riddle is the perfect student and Hagrid let
> the monster out. (And forget about Snape, he annoys me just as much
> as Trelawny's prophecies.)
>
> We are so busy considering everyone else's motives that we never
> even look into Dumbledore's role in all this. Where did he come
> from, and what is his stake in all this?
>
> Was he given another chance by someone? Is that why he gives
> everyone else second chances? Was his soul saved? Is part of his
> penance that he has to convert others? Does Dumbledore represent St.
> Paul?
>
> "Snape is now no more a Death Eater than I am."



Vivian,

Thank you for pointing me to your post with a similar theory.  I
searched high and low on here and wasn't able to find any other
ostings with this type of theory, otherwise I wouldn't have posted it.

Just as a clarification,  I do not think that Dumbledore gave this
information about the Potters and the Prophecy voluntarily.  I think
he was tortured into doing it and is not evil, just weaker than Voldemort.

But I have a question, in all but one of the cases that you mentioned
of people not being what they seemed, they were using polyjuice
potion.  Do you think that the Dumbledore who swallowed the potion was
someone else using a polyjuice potion and pretending to be Dumbledore?
 Or did you mean he was like Tom Riddle, pretending to be a good guy
when he was really evil and someone else (Snape maybe?) was the goody
guy that got the bad wrap from everyone?

Miss Vassy - Who hopes that she can keep throwing around supposition
for the next two and a half days to keep her head out of spoilers.  :)