[HPforGrownups] Re: Exhuming Tom Riddle the Elder

[Barb]

No: HPFGUIDX 47753


I wrote:

Dramatically, it also makes sense that the only complication to the spell will be Harry's blood.



Then Melody wrote:
<Psst> Barb.  Even without MD in tow behind me, another complication is also in the text.  Peter's life dept to Harry.  That also "flawed" the potion.  A part, I am fairly sure, Voldie did not know about. And I also want to throw my support on the fact the spell would of known who the father of Voldie was.  Spells cut to the truth it seems, and if not, then the spell would not of worked without the "bones of the father."  The other parts of the spell were true even if they had baggage.


Me again:

Thanks for that. <g>  But I think the life-debt Peter has to Harry complicates the relationships involved and who is likely to be on what side, not the spell.  There's nothing to suggest that Harry's best friends couldn't have performed the spell to give Voldemort his body back as long as whoever did it had the requisite ingredients (okay, maybe someone more experienced, but still).  Peter's role, other than to perform the ritual, was to provide "flesh of the servant", which he did.  Certainly he was acting in the role of a servant in all he did (anyone performing the spell would probably qualify for this), so I don't see how his contribution could be nullified.  Even if he turns against his Master at some time in the future, he was certainly in the servant's role at the time Voldemort got his body back.  I don't think things like this can be nullified retroactively when someone's allegiances change (that would be an odd thing for JKR to do), so I'm not seeing a complication here.  Whether he will perform in such a loyal capacity down the road remains to be seen, but that's another story (hopefully one written by JKR which we'll have in our hot little hands sooner than later...).

 

--Barb

 


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