Timeline for Why does Harry think that Dumbledore has never been in the Room of Requirement?
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| Mar 26, 2023 at 16:27 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | This reading makes absolutely no sense. If the thoughts are exclusively Riddle’s, then “he, Harry, had strayed” is meaningless (Riddle’s name was never Harry), and “a secret he and Voldemort knew, that Dumbledore had never discovered” even more so (Riddle and Voldemort are not separate people). You’re right that the first part is Harry surmising that Riddle assumed no one but him knew about the Room; but everything after that is completely unambiguously Harry’s own thoughts, not Riddle’s. | |
| Mar 23, 2023 at 23:29 | comment | added | Alexander The 1st | I'd add a third point to justify the second - when Dumbledore had a thing that he wanted to hide, he hid it...with the Dursleys. Voldemort and Harry both know that, when tasked to hide Harry Potter from Voldemort, Dumbledore did not choose to hide him in the Room Of Hidden Things (And given where he was hidden away, it would not surprise most people if Dumbledore had actually decided to use the Room of Requirement to hide Harry, if he thought that it could.). | |
| Mar 23, 2023 at 14:08 | comment | added | alexg | I don't agree with the reading of this being exclusively Riddle's thoughts. In my view, it's Harry's internal narration where he first agrees with Voldemort (thinking he was right as far as Dumbledore and Flitwick) and then notes a specific way that Voldemort was wrong (Harry has been there, even though Dumbledore hasn't). The point is that Harry still thinks Voldemort was right about Dumbledore not being there. | |
| Mar 23, 2023 at 13:23 | comment | added | Alex | Dumbledore was certainly not a pupil while Voldemort was in school. I don’t think Flitwick’s age is ever given in the books, so no specific reason to think he was a pupil at the same time as Voldemort either. | |
| Mar 23, 2023 at 13:10 | comment | added | dna | "Dumbledore and Flitwick, those model pupils". It clearly reference you Dumbledore and Flitwick. While Voldemort was in school. | |
| Mar 23, 2023 at 13:08 | comment | added | Alex | I don’t think this fits in context. If Harry was describing Voldemort’s perspective, why would there be references to Dumbledore, Flitwick, and Harry? Voldemort certainly wasn’t thinking about them when he hid the diadem. If, however, it is Harry’s own perspective, it makes perfect sense. Dumbledore had been searching for the Horcrux for years, and Harry had just asked Flitwick about it. Harry is justifying why he was able to figure it out but Dumbledore and Flitwick couldn’t. | |
| Mar 23, 2023 at 12:55 | history | answered | dna | CC BY-SA 4.0 |