Random DH questions from a lowly Muggle

[adamjmarcantel]

No: HPFGUIDX 172998

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "meglet2" <mercia at ...> wrote:
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mindy" <mindycl@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "allies426" <AllieS426@> 
> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > Allie now:
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????
> 
>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
> >
>

I don't know about a "mistake," necessarily.  It seems that DD's 
office is not that hard to get into.  All you have to do is see Harry 
being able to go there right after Snape's death simply by knowning 
the password.  It doesn't seem a far stretch that Snape would know 
the password to get into the office after DD's death and before he 
became Headmaster.  So I don't see that Snape being in DD's office 
after DD's death but before becoming Headmaster as a big problem, 
timeline-wise.

Adam