Flitwick, Amos Diggory (WAS Enviable and pitiable characters)

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No: HPFGUIDX 35752

About Professor Flitwick, Catlady wrote:

> Yes, but if he were my House master (Flitwick is Master of 
> Ravenclaw and I am a Ravenclaw) I don't think I could bear to go to 
> him with any problem about sex or broken hearts or other students 
> picking on me... This short guy who squeaks in excitement and falls 
> off his desk... 

<laughs>  

True.  But then, when it comes to that sort of thing, pretty 
much everyone except for the female Hufflepuff students is out of 
luck.  Professor Sprout seems like a real sweetheart, but I very much 
doubt that any of the boys would go to her with their personal 
problems.  And while the McGonagall types were always my absolute 
favorite teachers when I was a student, their demeanor does not 
encourage personal revelation.  And as for Snape...

Well.  Um.  Snape's not exactly the nurturing type.


About pitiful Amos Diggory, Jo Serenadust wrote:

> While I agree with you that he's unlikely to be seduced by the 
> dark side, I think that he may be vulnerable to being unwittingly 
> used by them to harm Harry. . . .I fear that as time goes by, that 
> grief will turn to bitterness and anger, and who is most likely to 
> be the target?

I fear that you're right.  It wouldn't surprise me one bit if Amos did
cause Harry some problems in Book Five.  The thought still makes me 
want to drop my head down on the keyboard and weep, though.

Evidently, I've gone soft.


Catlady suggested:

> The only way I can think of for him to be seduced by the Dark Side 
> (the murderers of his son! on whom surely he seeks more vengeance!) 
> now is if some Death Eater recruiter persuaded him that Voldemort's 
> Dark Magic and Immortality Spells could bring Cedric back to life.

Oh, now *that's* a nasty thought!  Amos Diggory meets the Monkey's 
Paw.  Ugly.

If poor Amos were actually to be seduced, though, rather than merely 
being an unaffiliated thorn in Harry's side, then I think it far more 
likely that it would happen by his becoming convinced that Harry, 
rather than anyone on the "Dark Side," had been the one to murder 
Cedric.

Strangely, while I still find that notion a very upsetting one, it 
doesn't make me want to weep *quite* so passionately as Unaffiliated-
Thorn-In-Harry's-Side-Diggory does.

Of course, Cindy doesn't believe in unaffiliated thorns.  She 
practices Constant Vigilance.  She's Tough enough to know the Truth: 
that *anyone* who opposes the triumph of Good in any way -- Ludo 
Bagman, Cornelius Fudge -- is most likely a Big Bad Evil Death Eater, 
and must be Watched Carefully At All Times.

She wrote:

> I think Amos will manifest his grief by stirring up trouble for 
> Harry at MoM. This won't be hard, after all, because *everyone* at 
> MoM is an evil DE. Fudge. Bagman. McNair. Avery. Oh sure, Harry 
> has Percy and Arthur Weasley to watch his back for him at MoM. 
> Small comfort, that.

Especially given what we all know about Arthur Weasley's unfortunate 
history with the Imperius Curse...


-- Elkins, still plumping hard for Imperius-Victim-Arthur, even if no 
one else is willing to join with her