ChapDisc: DH 18, The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore

[nikkalmati]

No: HPFGUIDX 182546

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nirupama76" <nirupama76 at ...> 
wrote:
>
> <SNIP>
> 
> > SSSusan:
> > No, I did not sense that DD was gay and that this relationship 
was, 
> > at least on DD's part, an in-love relationship.  The five years 
was 
> > VERY distressing to me and that, particularly, was where I 
thought 
> it 
> > would have been helpful for JKR to have revealed DD's gayness in 
> > text.  That is, I think being best buds with someone vs. being in 
> > love with someone is a different thing, and the delay in 
confronting 
> > GG made a WHOLE lot more sense to me after the nature of the 
> > relationship/feelings was revealed.
> <SNIP>
> 
> Niru writes:
> 
> I'm going off at a tangent here. But this is the 2nd or 3rd time 
I've 
> heard of the "five" years. Is this in DH? (I don't have the book 
> handy). Ok... here's why I'm confused. DD and GG were both about 18 
> when they met. I seem to remember from PS/SS that GG was defeated 
> sometime around 1945 or so (from the chocolate frog card if I'm not 
> mistaken). DD was 115 years old when he died. He died in 1997. So 
he 
> was about 52 when he defeated GG (give or take a few years). So, 
the 
> five year gap thing has me royally confounded now. <scratching head 
> and hoping someone knows the counter-jinx>
> 
> - Niru
>
>Nikkalmati

>What has me puzzled is why it took so long for Grindenwald to try to 
>take over the world.  If we start his attempt in 1939, Grindenwald 
>and Dumbledore have not seen each other for say 95 years?  They had 
>plans back when they were boys in about 1870.  What was Grindenwald 
>doing all that time? 

>Nikkalmati