[HPforGrownups] Re: DEs knowing about Pettigrew/ Missing 24 hours

[eloiseherisson at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 42521

Darrin:
> But it brings up an interesting side point. Was V-Mort so arrogant 
> that he didn't make arrangements for someone to take over in case 
> something happened to him? Even Hitler had a second-in-command ready 
> to step in if one of those assassination attempts had ever worked.

I don't think Voldemort needs anyone to take over. What does he care what 
happens in the WW after he is dead? As far as I can see, his philosophy is 
completely egocentric. He wants power. For himself. He has no offspring, as 
far as we know, so he is not creating a dynasty. He and his followers may 
have contempt for those not of pure blood, but his previous campaign doesn't 
seem to have consisted of  trying to win over the pure blood community to his 
side and then systematically eliminating those deemed not worthy of 
citizenship in an attempt to forge some master wizard race (although the 
Malfoys would presumably appreciate that). I believe he is an individual 
seeking merely personal power, with contempt for *anyone* who stands in his 
way.
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> Tara:
> >> Eloise, I can certainly see your point that an infant may be much easier 
>> to take care of than a 15 month old child!  However, I'm sure if Hagrid 
>> can handle a blast ended skrewt, he can definately handle 15 monthold 
>> Harry!  You also said that you considered a midnight flying motorcycle 
>> ride "distinctly frightening", but we need to think that it may have been 
>> common for Harry, after all Sirius WAS his Godfather, perhaps he's rode on 
>> the motorcycle before.

Sorry, I was ambiguous. I didn't mean that Harry would be frightened, but 
that the whole concept of flying a motorcycle whilst carrying a 15 month old 
was frightening. I mean, I wouldn't like to do it! Well, I wouldn't like to 
fly a motorbike at all, but toddlers are rather wriggly things, you know and 
Hagrid apparently only had him bundled inside his coat, not in a baby carrier 
or anything. I mean...what if he'd dropped him or something? I get a bit 
paranoid about infants and transport. It's a mum thing.

I'm not sure that caring for Skrewts is *very* good preparation (although 
both ends of an infant do carry their own hazards). It gives me a vision of 
Hagrid wrestling a screaming Harry into a pillow-lined box and trying to put 
a lid on it in order to get him to go to sleep!

As you say, he may have been magically calmed. I think he would need to be.

And my point about leaving him on the doorstep was not merely that he might 
wander off or something, but that he was likely to get hypothermia <stands by 
for posts giving the average night time temperatures in Surrey at the 
beginning of November >. 

Eloise
Who realises that she was very unfair to Hagrid before, because he 
successfully reared Aragog, as well as Norbert. Just not any children we know 
of.

And agrees with Marina's post re DEs knowing about Pettigrew.



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