[HPforGrownups] DD's guesses.

[LauraNPSP64 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 187028

 
In a message dated 6/13/2009 1:26:52 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
zanooda2 at yahoo.com writes:

>Can  anyone tell me when exactly did DD find out about Harry being a 
>Horcrux? Did  he know from the very beginning? But how? Only from >the scar on the 
>boy's  head? Or did he guess later, when Harry started to show some >signs, 
>like  Parseltongue, headaches, mental connection etc.? I can't >figure it out, 
>and  for some reason it bugs me  :-).


I believe Dumbledore began to believe Harry was a horcrux at the end of  
Chamber of Secrets. He tells Harry in Half-Blood Prince that it was  Harry 
that put him on to the fact that Lord Voldemort had made horcruxes. And at  the 
end of Chamber of Secrets, he tells Harry that he believes that Voldemort  
transferred some of his powers to Harry the night he tried to kill Harry 
when he  was a baby. He even agrees with Harry at the end of Chamber of Secrets 
that  he put "a bit of himself in Harry."
 
 I do not believe that He knew from the beginning that Voldemort made  the 
horcruxes, but he seemed to know exactly what that diary was in Chambers of  
Secrets. He may have suspected beforehand, but I don't think he knew for 
sure  until he was handed the destroyed diary. Otherwise I think he would have 
spent  the 10 years between the death of Lily and James and Harry starting 
school  looking for the horcruxes. 
 
Laura