In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is there a mistake? Maybe I'm misunderstanding something (please tell me if I am!)
But on the bottom of page 167 in the Aussie version (around one or two pages into Chapter 11 for those who have other versions), there's a line that says:
"It was not I who killed you, Albus," said a quiet voice.
I'm confused - I thought it was Moody who set the trap up so shouldn't it be Alastor, not Albus?
Maybe I'm missing something... Or it just a typo?
2007-11-18 20:59:00 · 7 answers · asked by Joopaloop 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The dust figure is supposed to be that of Dumbledore. You first have Moody's voice asking about whether or not the person entering is snape. Then you have a dust figure that was described earlier as Dumbledore. Lupin was talking to the dust figure, getting it to disolve as everytime someone tells it their not the one to have killed Dumbledore it explodes into that dust cloud.
2007-11-18 22:47:59 · answer #1 · answered by knight1192a 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wanderlust is correct. Moody, like everyone else in the Order of the Phoenix, believed that Snape had betrayed Dumbledore and murdered him. So he set up the trap so that each person who entered the safe house had to give the password "it was not I who killed you, Albus."
2007-11-18 21:37:43 · answer #2 · answered by Yogini108 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The appearation was that of Dumbledore, not Moody. That is why the speaker addresses "Albus".
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2007-11-19 06:35:34 · answer #3 · answered by WolverLini 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My understanding of this was that Moody set it up BEFORE he died - it was supposed to be an image of Dumbledore, because the prime purpose was to keep Snape out of the house, hence the "password" -"It was not I who killed you, Albus." The intention was to frighten/make guilty the "murderer" Snape - hence the use of Dumbledore's image. But I could be totally wrong about that.
2007-11-18 21:10:53 · answer #4 · answered by wanderlust 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I thought that too. I think its a typo, shouldn't it be Alastor, not Albus??
2007-11-18 21:44:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
the trap was to prevent snape intering the house....and moody made it before he died....it was not to prevent his own probable killer to enter the house, but to prevent snape who killed albus..
2007-11-18 21:36:55 · answer #6 · answered by Sonia 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Albus and Alastor are brothers.
Albus is killed in "The Half-Blood Prince"
Alastor runs the pub
2007-11-19 07:32:11 · answer #7 · answered by hicks.jenn 3 · 0⤊ 5⤋