Fanged Servant / Fall of the House of Longbottom

[Liz Muir]

No: HPFGUIDX 40898

*****Fanged Servant*****
Kel wrote:
>>Keep in mind... they say this (jokingly, of course) long before
anyone, including HRH, understand that the creature is a basilisk.
Although it is common knowledge at this point that Harry is a
parseltongue, I still fail to see why the Heir of Slytherin's 'servant'
would automatically be assumed to be a snake. If that was the common
assumption, then why didn't anyone clue in earlier that the creature
turning the students into stone was in fact a basilisk?<<

I favor that, perhaps in "Hogwarts, A History", Slytherin wrote a
loverly little poem about his chamber that mentioned a "fanged
servant." Tom Riddle says it took him years to figure it out, but he
can't figure it out without ANY clues. I think that it must mention it
somewhere.

And why couldn't it be assumed to be a snake? I mean, the guy's a
Parseltounge, the symbol of his house is a snake, he's obviously
obsessed with snakes. What better servant than something snake based?


*****The Fall of the House of Longbottom*****
Heather wrote:
>>Regarding the possibility (however slim) of baby Neville being
possessed, I have one question: How much power does Voldemort have over
the person whose body he shares? I got the sense that it was *sharing*,
not complete *possession*. When Voldemort shared Quirrell's body, he
really didn't take over Quirrell's entire persona, he just basically
tagged along on the back of his head. Quirrell followed Voldemort's
orders because he was a dark lord supporter, not because Voldemort was
literally making him. So if Voldemort infested Neville's body, I don't
think he could actually use that body to crucio the Longbottoms; all he
could do would be to order Neville to attack them, which a baby
wouldn't even understand, much less be capable of doing. Also, the use
of dark detectors to discover this probably wouldn't be necessary; I
bet the Longbottoms would notice a face on the back of their son's
head. Just a thought :)<<

Since this is a combined reply, I don't feel so bad about this
extremely short post. This is exactally what I was thinking.
Voldemort!Quirrell seemed to have to personalities. They didn't even
share thoughts, since they had to talk to each other. Voldemort even
says himself that he shares other's bodies. (SS, pg. 293, final
confrontation scene) Perhaps, since Neville was a baby, his will was
"less strong" and Voldemort could possess him. I doubt it though.


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Rowen Avalon (Liz Muir)

"We will not examine how grainy the frosting is. It's a cake. That's all we need to know."
"Everyone keeps learn more and more about less and less until finally they know everything about nothing. It's called specializing."
"The guilty taketh the truth to be hard, for it cutteth then to the very center."
"I have nothing but contempt for a man who can spell a word only one way."

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