Random DH questions from a lowly Muggle

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No: HPFGUIDX 172992

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mindy" <mindycl at ...> wrote:
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "allies426" <AllieS426@> 
wrote:
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> 
> > Allie now:
> > 
> > But how did Portrait Dumbledore even **KNOW** the escape date?  
He 
> was 
> > dead months before Harry's 17th birthday, and I doubt the Order 
had 
> > planned which particular Saturday they were going to take Harry 
so 
> far 
> > in advance.
> >
> 
> Mindy says:
> 
> I have another puzzling question.... Snape only became Hogwarts 
> headmaster in September. How the heck did he get into Dumbledore's 
> office in July????

I asked that one on Tuesday night and if it was a mistake. One friend 
had read that whole bit with the portrait as having taken place 
months before and that the Order had indeed planned Harry's escape 
long in advance including the change of date. But that doesn't really 
work for me. That chat with the portrait definitely suggests Snape is 
HM and DD is dead and therefore couldn't be happening in July. I 
still think it is a mistake and part of the careless writing of the 
book. But I would love to be proved wrong with a better theory.

Mercia
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