Re: DD is not the secretkeeper of the Order

gjw wrote:
On 25 Apr 2007 14:24:08 -0700, mueckelein <mueckelein@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

While rereading OotP once more I came across a strange incident: When
Harry is standing in front of 12 GP for the first time he is shown the
slip of paper with the secret:"Harry looked down at the piece of
paper. The narrow handwriting was vaguely familiar." How could the
writing appear familiar to Harry if it was DD´s. As far as I can
remember Harry has never seen DD´s writing before. In addition DD´s
handriting is described as thin and slanting in HBP, when he sends
Harry the letter that he will pick him up at the Dursleys. It is not
described as "narrow".
Now only the secretkeeper can write down the secret and as it is not DD
´s writing he cannot be the SK! Who has got a narrow handwriting? If I
am not much mistaken, Snape´s writing is described as narrow once, si
I fear he really is the SK. If this is true the order will really be
in trouble if Snape happens to be on LV´s side!
It all loooks as if it is the same story as with Lily and James.
Everybody thought Sirius was the SK, but it was Wormtail. Here DD is
believed to be it, but it is really Snape.


Oops. Just as I hit the Send button, I realized I had made a mistake.
That note from Dumbledore (in book one) wasn't included with Harry's
new broom, it was included with Harry's new invisibility cloak. I was
getting my gifts mixed up there...



Yep, and it wasn't 'new', it was his father's old cloak.
Grin.
It is also likely that by that time (OOTP), Harry would have seen a few examples of the Headmaster's writing. Perhaps not enough to recognize it, but to feel it was familiar. He should be quite enough familiar with Snape's writing from classes over 4.5 years, however.
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