CoS chapters 17-18 post DH look

[Mike]

No: HPFGUIDX 181353

> > CoS: 
> > "Twice - in your past, in my future - we have met" - p.316
> > 
> > Alla:
> > 
> > I mean he says Ginny told him all about Harry, but Ginny 
> > does not really know what happened in PS/SS, no?
> 
> zgirnius:
> Ginny is Ron's little sister, and a friend of Hermione. I don't 
> think a great deal of plot hole filler is needed to suggest Ginny 
> DOES know.

Mike:
Also remember at the end of PS/SS Dumbledore said, "What happened 
down in the dungeons ... is a complete secret, so, naturally, the 
whole school knows." <p. 296, US> Though Ginny wasn't in school, if 
Ron didn't tell her, and I'm sure he did, she could have learned it 
from lots of other people, at least people in the Gryffindor common 
room. I believe Ginny, already interested in Harry, would have asked 
an older student.



> >CoS:
> > "What interests me most," said Dumbledore gently,"is how Lord 
> > Voldemort managed to enchant Ginny, when my sources tell me that 
> > he is currently in hiding in the forests of Albania" - p.328
> > 
> > Alla:
> > 
> > So DD does not know about horcruxes yet after all or does he?
> 
> zgirnius:
> He may have suspected, but did not know. He states in HBP,
> "Horcruxes", that he figured it out when Harry described the 
> diary to him. He could only account for its ability to think and 
> act independently by supposing the diary had been a Horcrux.

Mike:
When do you all think Dumbledore started collecting those memories 
of Voldemort that he showed Harry in HBP? 

I always thought DD started a good while ago. I'm thinking during 
Voldemort's first reign of terror. Though the oldest memory, Bob 
Ogden's, happened around 1925 and dear old Bob could have still 
been alive in 1992, after the Diary Horcrux. 

But I had the feeling that Bob, Hokey and Morfin had died long 
before 1992. If that's right, it means DD must have gotten lucky 
to collect the memories that told him what 3 of the Horcruxes were, 
since he collected them before he knew LV had Horcruxes, plural. Or, 
Dumbledore actually suspected multiple Hocruxes before the Diary.

Mike