Quirrell & Voldemort - McGonagall & Divination - Mastermind Theory

[Alexander]

No: HPFGUIDX 40689

  Greetings!

--- QUIRRELL & VOLDEMORT -----------------------------------

  Has anybody wondered, how does it happen that Quirrell
calls You-Know-Who by his true name in the end of SS/PS? All
wizards are damn afraid of You-Know-Whose name, and those
most afraid of it are followers of You-Know-Who (AKA Death
Eaters). But Quirrell calls his name without a flinch. Is
there a reason for this? Or maybe those whose body is
inhabited by You-Know-Who have more intimate relations with
the Dark Lord? (Oh, I better stop this now before I make
it too juicy... ;).

--- MCGONAGALL & DIVINATION --------------------------------

  Hmm, has anybody thought that McGonagall might have a
talent in Divination? (grin) I mean, just re-read PS1...
"But Dumbledore, the boy will be famous, there will be no
child in the world who wouldn't know his name, he will have
books written about him...". I mean, all of this has
actually happened, right?

  The only thing that McGonagall has predicted but that
hasn't yet happened, is that October 31 will be named the
"Day of Harry Potter"... Something for us to do, I think! ;)

--- MASTERMIND THEORY --------------------------------------

  For all those who were involved in the "Spying Games"
thread (and yes, for me as well), I propose this new
Mastermind Theory:

  True Mastermind of the books is the Sorting Hat.

  Yeah, and I have a lot of reasons to prove this theory.

  Rowling herself has said, that one of the characters we
are going to learn lot about, is the Sorting Hat.

  Sorting Hat is a very powerful artifact. Able to break
into anybody's brains, to learn person's wishes, desires and
potential abilities, capable of performing a full-scale
psychological analysis of the person in question.

  What influence can Sorting Hat have on the story? A great
one! After all, it's the Sorting Hat who does the sorting,
right? Don't even tell me that if Harry would be sorted
into, say, Ravenclaw (or Slytherin) the history would go the
same way. And what would happen if Riddle would be sorted
into Gryffindor? Would he become Voldemort, or more positive
surroundings would make him a better person? Who knows?
Sorting Hat does.

  It's a damn old artifact. After all, it's around 1000
years old by now. In 1000 years, one can learn to predict
the results of the sorting. Of 40 new students to sort
every year, a great number of possibilities is available to
choose from. Of course, this number is limited by student's
wishes - it's hard to imagine Draco being sorted into
Gryffindor against his will.

  Also the Sorting Hat seems to have some form of
communication, IF NOT CONTROL, with Fawkes (maybe with some
other wizard familiars as well). Was it really Fawkes who
came to Harry's resque in CS? Wasn't it the Sorting Hat
instead? I wonder...

  Now about the reasons. I can propose two general theories,
with second including the first.

  First theory assumes that the Hat has a single
personality, combined from all four founders. This is
actually the worst possibility, as in this case the Hat has
only a single reason to act: self-preservation. That is, the
Hat is interested in maintaining the situation when Hat's
services are required. As such, Sorting Hat is directly
responsible for the stagnation of Wizarding World on
medieval level.

  Indeed, has anybody though why Wizarding World is
*medieval*? Not antique, not paleolyte, not Reinassance...
But Hat was created in medieval times.

  Another thing Sorting Hat is directly responsible is the
routine appearance of more and more Dark Wizards. Indeed,
when energy of the society is directed first on the
extermination of yet another Dark Lord, and then on
repairing the damage done by the war, there is only a little
social energy left for really important things, like
breaking this eternal circle, or searching for the reason of
it...

  And it's real easy to make yet another Dark Lord. Just
sort a right boy into right House with right friends...
Guess what would happen to Harry is he would be sorted into
Slytherin, but Ron and Hermione into Gryffindor. No friends
(Draco would never become Harry's friend, even if they were
in the same House), those friends he has just got have
turned away from him... He would make a perfect new Dark
Lord to replace Voldemort in this position.

  So, if we assume this theory is true, then Sorting Hat is
the U.E.F.A. (Ultimate Evil Fantasy Artifact), and we might
expect to see Harry and Voldemort allying against this damn
thing when they realise what is REALLY happening...

  Second possibility is that the Sorting Hat has FOUR
distinct personalities inside it. This variant allows for
more freedom of actions of main characters, though it still
includes the above Theory. Self-preservation is still the
most imperative thing for the Hat, but there are other
interests as well.

  I would suppose that what Sorting Hat does is play the
game. A great, never-ending game of chess, with wizards
acting as pieces in this game of millenia. Four players -
four personalities of the Sorting Hat, are choosing their
pieces, and allocate them on the board. Pieces act on their
own will, but that's not important - that just adds more
interest to the game.

  This possibility is more humiliating to the Wizarding
World, but allows for more freedom of action. For one thing,
an additional possibility appears: to try to play the Four
against one another. Though hard it is, this is
theoretically possible.

  And last. Many have wondered why Harry is going to be
happy for saving Wormtail's life. I reply: because Wormtail
is going to destroy the Sorting Hat! Yep, without even
understanding of what he does, and for purely selfish
reasons, as somebody has suggested, he will destroy the
U.E.F.A. of the Millenia and break the cursed Circle (I
would even dare to call this Circle a Ring... ;) into which
the Wizarding World has gotten into!

  Hope somebody will make an acronym for this.

--
Sincerely yours,
Alexander Lomski,
Gryffindor/Slytherin crossbreed,
always happy to throw weird ideas into community.

Tuesday, July 2, 2002, 15:55 local time (GMT+2:00)

Spell "Mobiliskeeter". Will move Rita Skeeter out of your
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