Originally posted by kleptomaniac
Yeah, I thought he was too at the end of GoF and after I first read OoP, mainly cos I read it so fast so that no one could tell me what happened (a girl at school told me the day after the book came out that Sirius died- I was very shitty) that quite a few of the scenes with Dumbledore in them seemed quite evil. After reading it a second time slowly, I understood that the loathing that Harry had for Dumbledore around the middle of the book was caused by Voldemort, and Dumbledore was back in my good books.
BUT, there's still a bit that confuses me at the end of GoF- it's while Harry's explaining what happened in the graveyard.
"'He said that my blood would make him stronger than if he'd used someone else's,' Harry told Dumbledore. 'He said that the protection my- my mother left in me- he''d have it, too. And he was right- he could touch me without hurting himself, he touched my face.'
For a fleeting instant, Harry thought he saw a gleam of something like triumph in Dumbledore's eyes. But next second, Harry was sure he had imagined it, for when Dumbledore had returned to his seat behind the desk, he looked as old and weary as Harry had ever seen him"
What's THAT about? Why would Dumbledore look triumphant?