[HPforGrownups] Re: Two questions..

[Peg Kerr]

No: HPFGUIDX 9138

aiz24 at hotmail.com wrote:

> > Why, do you suppose, was Voldemorte nervous and afraid of the smokey
> > echoes walking around him during the priori incantatem incident?

> One more thing--even someone as conscienceless and evil as Voldemort
> has to be just a bit freaked out by seeing his victims reappear before
> his eyes.  That has to be the mass murderer's worst nightmare.
> (Hello, Macbeth.)

It's actually an even better allusion, as I've mentioned before, to Act V,
Scene 3 of Richard III, where the ghosts of his murdered victims appear to
curse him and give comfort to his enemy.  See:

http://tech-two.mit.edu/Shakespeare/richardiii/richardiii.5.3.html

e.g.,

Enter the Ghost of Prince Edward, son to King Henry VI

Ghost of Prince Edward:

     [To KING RICHARD III]
     Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow!
     Think, how thou stab'dst me in my prime of youth
     At Tewksbury: despair, therefore, and die!

     To RICHMOND

     Be cheerful, Richmond; for the wronged souls
     Of butcher'd princes fight in thy behalf
     King Henry's issue, Richmond, comforts thee.

etc.

Peg,
who went to her Shakespeare playreading group tonight where she read
Twelfth Night out loud with a bunch of friends (I got to read Viola) and
had too much caffeinated coffee and so can't sleep and is catching up on
reading HP4GU instead.