Dumbledore

[Joey Smiley]

No: HPFGUIDX 190880

> Pippin:
> DE's and ministry officials questioned the Weasleys and everyone who might know where Harry was. While  Harry believed that no Order member would voluntarily betray him, there's still legilimency,  veritaserum, the Imperius curse, torture and emotional blackmail. 

Joey:

Agreed. Now you mention it, I'm wondering how none of the new Order members were affected by any of these. Yet the DEs & ministry officials wouldn't be able to ask the right questions - they didn't know about the Horcruxes themselves (Only DD and Voldy knew. And due to DD, the trio knew). All they can ask is about Harry's whereabouts and they were doing it anyway.

> Pippin:
> Dumbledore didn't use a tongue tying curse on Harry or put the information about the horcruxes under the Secret Keeper spell. Harry always had the option of passing as much information to others as he thought was safe. But Harry had learned by this time that he was a poor judge of whom to trust: Quirrell, Riddle, Scabbers, Fake!Moody, Marietta and   the Half-blood Prince  all caught him completely off guard. It's only when he found that Dumbledore betrayed him too (as he thought) that Harry realized the mistake he'd been making: unlike Dumbledore, he'd  trusted people he didn't really know. 

Joey:

But he did ask Harry not to confide in anybody other than Ron and Hermione.

> Pippin:
> All the portraits were in on DD's plan, and some of them have images elsewhere, so there was a backup  even if Hogwarts was destroyed or Snape died before he could get his information to Harry. 

Joey:

But how powerful and effective is this backup? It was sheer luck that Phineas Nigellus's portrait was in the beaded bag and that was the only portrait that had a connection with GP. DD must have known that Harry would not do his 7th year in Hogwarts with such a daunting, life-impacting task ahead of him; he planned to die but he never told Harry to maintain contacts with his portrait (or the rest) in case of his death.

Cheers,
~Joey :-)