For it was said once that you might need to raise your hand against your mentor, the one who made you, who you loved; it was said that you might be my downfall.
Indeed. Harry raised his hand against his mentor, the one who made him, the one he loved (‘Harry was in love. It would be a three-way wedding: him, the Time-Turner, and Professor Quirrell’), and was the cause of Dumbledore’s downfall. Only, Dumbledore did not realize that he and Harry’s mentor does not need to be the same person.
But didn’t he note in the confrontation in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class that Harry had chosen Quirrell as his Wise Old Wizard?
““Harry… you must realize that if you choose this man as your teacher and your friend, your first mentor, then
one way or another you will lose him, and the manner in which you lose him may or may not allow you to ever get him back.””
Dumbledore’s comment in his note just don’t seem congruent with this comment earlier on, and it’s this comment and not the note which seems congruent with reality.
Indeed. Harry raised his hand against his mentor, the one who made him, the one he loved (‘Harry was in love. It would be a three-way wedding: him, the Time-Turner, and Professor Quirrell’), and was the cause of Dumbledore’s downfall. Only, Dumbledore did not realize that he and Harry’s mentor does not need to be the same person.
But didn’t he note in the confrontation in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class that Harry had chosen Quirrell as his Wise Old Wizard?
Dumbledore’s comment in his note just don’t seem congruent with this comment earlier on, and it’s this comment and not the note which seems congruent with reality.
To be fair, we don’t know when he wrote the note.