Dumbledore's role in Trio becoming friends WAS: Re: CHAPTER

[Alice]

No: HPFGUIDX 188439



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" <dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:

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> I mean, I totally get how Manipulative!Dumbledore made Harry love Hogwarts and want to go there, that I understand and agree to a large extent, but how did he insured that Harry became friends specifically with Ron and Hermione?
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> Did he hypnotize Ron to make sure he would like Harry on the train and vice versa? ...
> Thanks,
> Alla.

Yes, how would Dumbledore even know that Harry would meet Ron on the train?

And for that matter, the fact that he met Draco earlier in Diagon Alley, and found him unpleasantly like his cousin Dudley, also influenced him when Draco tried to warn him off Ron later at Hogwarts.

Dumbledore is a Machivellian manipulator, but he is not omniscient and all-powerful--something Rowling in fact emphasizes every once in a while in the books.  I don't think even he could have managed to set Harry's whole life experience up so that he would be friends with certain people when he got to school.

Mad Alice
>:>