MAGIC DISHWASHER Fanfic-ness

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) <catlady@wicca.net>]

T is for Transfiguration (picture of a teapot being turned into a 
tortoise)
T is for Telescope (thank you Melody)
T is for Time Turner (thanks Meg)
Y is for Yellow (Meg) 
N is for Nine and Three-Quarters (Meg) Newspaper (Melody)

When last I explained CHOP on the main list (see below), I realised 
that it works with something like MAGIC DISHWASHER -- it wouldn't be 
worth Dumbledore's life just for Snape to spy on V to report to a 
leaderless "old gang", but it could be worth it for Snape to lead 
(trick) V into the rare position where he can be killed by Harry. 
That depends on Dumbledore having figured out, and explained to 
Snape, what that rare position is --  like MAGIC DISHWASHER.

If there is need for communication between the two sides, Remus could 
be the new double agent, claiming that he was going to the Dark Side 
because of being a dark creature. 

Imagine all that angst! Harry and Sirius will be certain that Snape 
is *sincerely* Dark, and suspect that Remus is as well ... Snape 
forced to depend on Remus whom he hates ...  

IMHO Trelawney's first prophecy was delivered to James and Sirius. 
She put her hands on James and said something like "only this man's 
son can destroy the Dark Lord." Shocked by her blank eyes and alien 
vvoice, they told Dumbldore. He told them not to tell anyone (if the 
prophecy had been widely known, it would have been in those history 
books that Hermione read) but James told Lily and Peter, and Sirius 
told Remus. Peter told the Dark Lord, who was certain that it meant 
Harry because of the correlation with the other prophecy he had, 
about the wizard of special power to be born on Lammas of 1980. This 
is why V was so  determined to kill the Potters promptly. This is why 
Sirius suspected Remus -- he didn't know that Peter knew. Dumbldeore 
called this prophecy accurate because it had already come true, when 
Harry disembodied V.  

What makes Harry (and not some other son of James) so special -- 
possibly able to kill the immortal V -- is that magic V gave him with 
the failed Death Curse. Sharing the same magic, their lives are 
entwined. (I love self-fulfilling prophecies in stories.) Dumbledore 
suspected it when he rescued baby Harry, and confirmed it by research 
in the next few years...  For some reason, the need to raise Harry to 
be a hero led Dumbledore to leave himwith Dursleys even after finding 
out how abusive they were, instead of taaking him to live at 
Hogwarts, which would also be safe, protection of Hogwarts as good 
as protection of living with relatives under ancient magic, but would 
lead him to swelled head, or at least to absorbing the common 
prejudicces  of wizards... he either did some magic, or knew that 
Lily had done some magic (as I believe) to give Harry a loving adult 
image to comfort him from Dursleys and teach him right from wrong ... 
maybe in dreams .... 

.... the shared blood makes them that much more intertwined, 
therefore the gleam, but Harry will die along with V, thus Dumbledore
looking very old and tired. Dumbledore HAD NOT PLANNED the use of 
Harry's blood, or he wouldn't have reacted so strongly to hearing of 
it. Go on, persuade me that Dumbledore, alarmed by  Quirrelmort's 
attack on the Stone, deiberately set up V's opportunity to re-embody 
in a MORTAL way ...  does Magic Dishwasher believe that he sent 
Bertha to V, which would have been outright murder of Bertha?

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) 
<catlady at w...>" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> 
> CHOP. That's the acronym for Cranium of Headmaster On a Platter, 
> which is the theory recently proposed, that Dumbledore and Snape
> long ago agreed on a plan in which Snape will persuade Voldemort 
> that his loyalty is to Voldemort, not Dumbledore, by 'giving 
> Voldemort Dumbledore's head on a platter'. The beheading is not 
> necessarily literal; I think it more likely that Snape will bring
> Dumbledore to Voldemort alive but under the Full-Body-Bind, so 
> Voldemort can gloat over him before killing him. Dumbledore is cool
> with this scheme (he thought it up), as he is old and tired and 
> eager to go on to 'the next great adventure', but Snape is NOT cool
> with it. Dumbledore is Snape's father-figure and apparently the
> only person he loves and Snape does not want Dumbledore to die at
> all and leave him, but even less does he want Dumbledore to die at
> his hands. It got worse when a thing in Elkins's dissertation on
> the Bartemii gave me the horrible realization that Voldemort will 
> require Snape to *prove* his loyalty to Voldemort by seriously 
> torturing Dumbledore as Voldemort watches. I suppose Voldemort 
> demands only efficiency of his torturers (sadistic glee is not 
> *required*), but that requires one Hell of an acting performance
>  from Snape, to conceal the tears in his eyes...