[HPforGrownups] Chocolate Frog Cards

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 170009

> Anne:
> I am new to this group so I don't know if this question has
> been raised before, but I have been wondering for a long time
> about the chocolate frog cards.  Dumbledore either says (or
> is quoted as saying) that he doesn't mind what *they* do to
> him so long as they don't take him off the chocolate frog
> cards.  At face value it seems like a throwaway remark, but
> as we all know, JKR often makes a throwaway remark in one
> book that is a vital plot point in another book.  JKR has
> confirmed that DD is dead (oh, poop), but he's taken his
> place in his portrait and is still on the CFC...is that
> important or significant?  Is there more to a CFC than
> meets the eye?

Shelley:
I think it's very significant that DD is on the Chocolate Frog Cards, and
yes, there is more than meets the eye to them. I have long thought that the
Chocolate Frog Cards have been DD's way of spying on people and gathering
information. However, now that he's dead and only a portrait, it's unclear
if the moving of "himself" from portrait to portrait includes moving himself
through the Chocolate Frog cards as well. This would be an excellent way for
Harry to gather information in the future when he's searching for the
Horcruxes.