[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Book 2 - Harry's Discovery

[shalimar07 at aol.com]

Sorry it has taken so long to respond but it was Valentine's Day.

Harry’s Discovery

If HBP has something to do with a discovery Harry made in Book two  “Chamber 
of Secrets” than here is my two knuts worth.
 
JKR has given us the name of three HBP chapters.  I would like to  dwell on 
Chapter Six “Draco’s Detour”.
 
When Harry takes an accidental detour from the Burrow via the Floo System  he 
winds up in Knockturn Alley sprawled on the floor of Bogin & Burkes.  After a 
quick look around and before he can leave he sees the Malfoys.  He  hides so 
he doesn’t have to confront the pair.  Now the fun begins.
 
Skip Lucious and go directly to Draco…
 
Draco has been told to “touch nothing”.  Of course he’s a kid in a  candy 
store and wants everything.  He ask his father if he can have “the  withered 
hand on it’s cushion”.  Mr. Borgin is delighted exclaiming “Ah,  the Hand of 
Glory!” “Insert a cadle and it gives light only to the holder. Best  friend of 
thieves and plunders!”  Lucious  doesn’t buy it for him  saying he would hope 
his son would amount to more than that.  However, if  his grades don’t pick up 
that may be all he’s fit for! (little side note: Isn’t  Dean Thomas’ boggart 
a severed hand?) Anyway, Draco’s response is always to  blame his problems on 
someone else..this time Hermoine. Saying the teachers  prefer her.
 
Now further down on the page he comes across “a magnificent necklace of  opals
”. With a sign that says, “Caution: Do Not Touch. Cursed – Has claimed  the 
lives of nineteen muggle owners to date”.  If there’s something  JKR wants 
you to notice she will either Italicize a line or not finish a  sentence. 
 
If, and I said ‘If’ someone is going to die in Book Six could it be a  
muggle? What better way for Draco to try and get rid of Hermoine and get back at  
Harry than to kill off Hermoine’s Mom by sending the necklace to her.   
Remember it says Muggle owners and not Witches. If he succeeds in doing that it  will 
open up a whole string of events including the wrath of Arthur Weasley  
because of his love of muggles.
 
I could go on and on but I’m not writing a editorial.
 
So, in a nutshell, I feel the discovery Harry made and 'Draco's Detour'  
could be the “little shop of horrors’ in Knockturn Alley called Borgin &  Burkes.

Mary
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

>(snip quite  a long but very interesting background on how Valky 
arrived at the  following):
> 
> And here's the punch line, finally, Hagrid is  Godric Gryffindors 
> Heir, and the Half-Blood Prince is what he *would  have been*, if he 
> ever had completed his schooling and taken his  *true* place in the 
> Castle Hogwarts.
> 
> That's my  theory, 
> Mary's turn... :D
> 
> Valky

 


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