[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore's nose - Harry's scar - Messiah plot - Ron the star?

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 30389


Thursday, November 29, 2001, 6:18:39 AM, Gabriel Edson wrote:

GE> 1. My own nitpick: Dumbledore's nose. In the first book, JKR destribes Dumbledore's nose as long and crooked and looking as
GE> if it had been broken more than once. Why? Madame Pomfrey can heal any wound in less than a week, including regrowing whole
GE> arm bones. If that kind of medical magic is out there, why are there people with broken noses and scarred faces (Moody)?

Maybe injuries caused by really powerful dark magic can't be reversed.

GE> 2. Why doesn't Harry's scar hurt in the Leaky Cauldron? Quirrell was back from Albania, wearing his turban. Theoretically,
GE> V. was with him at this point.

But he wasn't.  He only occupies Quirrell after he fails to steal the
stone from Gringotts.  (Which makes me wonder how Q brought V over
from Albania...)

GE> Why does Harry's scar hurt only when Snape stares at him during the first feast?

"The Fallacy of False Cause" -- It was really V in Q's turban that set
off Harry's scar.

GE> 3. Messiah plot...

She's clearly against doing anything that is "so Star Wars"...

GE> 5. I'm sure that other people have considered the possibility that Dumbledore somehow IS Harry and the reason he seems to
GE> be so clueless in letting things happen is that he knows that they have to happen this way in order for the ultimate result
GE> to occur?

If there's one thing about the Potterverse that gives me nightmares
it's these potential "Closed Timelike Loops" (A causes B, then B goes
back in time and causes A -- See my past messages on this issue).  I
like a universe that has sane laws of causality.

-- 
Dave