[ Dumbledore WAS: Re: Love and Joy vs. Hate and Despair

[June Ewing]

No: HPFGUIDX 190940

> Steve responds:

> This is a very complex plot aspect, and one that is not static, it
is every changed as the plots of many books go on.

> I think Dumbledore suspected that a part of Voldemort might be in
> Harry, but what that meant and where that would take them was
unclear. At the early stage, I'm sure his thoughts we focused on, IF
> this is true, then how can I undo it?

> But I think there came a moment of high and grand revelation for
Dumbledore, and that moment has come to be referred to as the "Gleam"
> or the "Gleam of Triumph" in Dumbledore's eye near the end of
Goblet of Fire, when Dumbledore realizes that Voldemort has made the
> mistake of using Harry's blood in his rebirth. In that moment,
> Voldemort made himself a Horcrux for Harry.

> So, yes, in that moment, a Gleam of Triumph, followed by the
terrible weight of realizing just what this means. I don't think that
up until that moment did Dumbledore believe that Harry would have to
> sacrifice himself to Voldemort. Certainly, Harry was in danger of
dying, and certainly the Harry-Horcrux was an aspect that would have
> to be dealt with. But in that one great and terrible moment,
> Dumbledore finally sees the path clearly; and it is a dark and
> terrible path indeed.


June:
Steve, you have just made lightbulbs go off in my head. Funny I had
actually forgotten that Voldemort had used Harry's blood to come
back. Yes Dumbledore must have had an idea that Harry was a horcrux
already at that point and when he told Dumbledore that Voldemort had
used his blood we knew that Dumbledore knew something that we didn't
at that point. He most likely knew that Harry could sacrifice himself
to Voldemort when the time was right and still survive.