Dumbledore's watch is like an alethiometer?

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 170966

eyemlynn:
> I am currently reading "The Subtle Knife", the second book of 
> Pullman's His Dark Materials, and I've been wondering what if DD's 
> watch worked kind of like the alethiometer.
> 
> He did check it at Privet Drive when he dropped Harry off. Maybe 
> it was telling him that he needed to do that in order for 
> Voldemort to be defeated.  Maybe he's been checking it all along 
> and that's why he knew what he would have to teach Harry for him 
> to be sucessful in SS.
> 
> I guess I haven't fully thought this idea out but it would seem to
> explain a lot of DD's actions that seem to put Harry in danger
> and/or seem manipulative.


Jen:  What is an alethiometer?  Does it give information about the 
future, like probabilities?  I wondered because you mentioned DD 
knowing what to teach Harry, and then I remembered the planets on 
the watch and how the Centaurs divine by looking at planet 
positions.  And do you think Ron's is the same thing even though it 
looks different? 

I've wondered if DD's watch has something to do with altering 
matter, the reason for his ability to become invisible as well as 
offering a way to be in several places at once.  I'm not sure such a 
watch would be necessary though, given his ability in 
Transfiguration.   

Jen