HBP Theories and Questions -- Please Respond
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You know what's really bugging me this morning? How Dumbledore acted when Harry had not succeeded in getting that memory from Slughorn the first time. It's just nagging at me, like something there was not right. FIrst off, I don't see what the big deal was that Harry had to be the one to get that memory. You can't tell me that if it was that important, that in all those years Dumbledore couldn't have gotten it himself. And why was it so important anyway? Am I missing something? Dumbledore already knew that T. Riddle had asked about horcruxes... so I think he could guess what came next. It's not like he didn't know what they are himself.
It's really bothering me. When has Dumbledore ever acted like that before?
You know what it makes me think of? All of the ministry posters and pamphlets warning against people posing as others under polyjuice. Or people being under imperius. Why was all that stressed so much if it did not come into play again? Remember when Dumbledore told Harry that raspberry was his favorite jam? That doesn't seem like something that Rowling would have just thrown in whimsically.
It's also bothering me how Harry got so many parchments for his meetings with Dumbledore. Always hand-delivered, never sent by owl. Why? We know the owl mail was being searched with secrecy detectors... was there something going on here and this was a way to bypass security?
But who else could Dumbledore have been if he wasn't Dumbledore? Or who would have put him under Imperius?
My first thought, of course, is Snape. That Snape was the one pretending to be Dumbledore. But that doesn't work because Snape and Dumbledore are of course together in the tower scene.
What if the person Snape killed wasn't Dumbledore? What if Snape doesn't know it himself? Then that would mean that the person begging Snape might HAVE actually been begging for their life. And the real Dumbledore might still be alive -- if he had previously ordered Snape to kill him if it came to it, then someone else was disguising themself as him and Snape didn't know it -- that would release Snape from the unbreakable vow, right? So might Dumbledore have planned it all along?
Who would beg like that? Pettigrew, maybe?? Where did Pettigrew run off to after the Spinner's End chapter? Does it have anything to do with Dumbledore's withered hand and Pettigrew missing a hand?!! Are they the same one? Dumbledore never did tell us that his injury was definitely caused by that ring, did he? Didn't we all just jump to that conclusion on our own?
Something here is not right. I don't think this theory is either, I'm just trying to figure it out. But there has to be more than meets the eye in all of that.
Any ideas? Please. This is really driving me crazy.
You know what's really bugging me this morning? How Dumbledore acted when Harry had not succeeded in getting that memory from Slughorn the first time. It's just nagging at me, like something there was not right. FIrst off, I don't see what the big deal was that Harry had to be the one to get that memory. You can't tell me that if it was that important, that in all those years Dumbledore couldn't have gotten it himself. And why was it so important anyway? Am I missing something? Dumbledore already knew that T. Riddle had asked about horcruxes... so I think he could guess what came next. It's not like he didn't know what they are himself.
It's really bothering me. When has Dumbledore ever acted like that before?
You know what it makes me think of? All of the ministry posters and pamphlets warning against people posing as others under polyjuice. Or people being under imperius. Why was all that stressed so much if it did not come into play again? Remember when Dumbledore told Harry that raspberry was his favorite jam? That doesn't seem like something that Rowling would have just thrown in whimsically.
It's also bothering me how Harry got so many parchments for his meetings with Dumbledore. Always hand-delivered, never sent by owl. Why? We know the owl mail was being searched with secrecy detectors... was there something going on here and this was a way to bypass security?
But who else could Dumbledore have been if he wasn't Dumbledore? Or who would have put him under Imperius?
My first thought, of course, is Snape. That Snape was the one pretending to be Dumbledore. But that doesn't work because Snape and Dumbledore are of course together in the tower scene.
What if the person Snape killed wasn't Dumbledore? What if Snape doesn't know it himself? Then that would mean that the person begging Snape might HAVE actually been begging for their life. And the real Dumbledore might still be alive -- if he had previously ordered Snape to kill him if it came to it, then someone else was disguising themself as him and Snape didn't know it -- that would release Snape from the unbreakable vow, right? So might Dumbledore have planned it all along?
Who would beg like that? Pettigrew, maybe?? Where did Pettigrew run off to after the Spinner's End chapter? Does it have anything to do with Dumbledore's withered hand and Pettigrew missing a hand?!! Are they the same one? Dumbledore never did tell us that his injury was definitely caused by that ring, did he? Didn't we all just jump to that conclusion on our own?
Something here is not right. I don't think this theory is either, I'm just trying to figure it out. But there has to be more than meets the eye in all of that.
Any ideas? Please. This is really driving me crazy.