Voldemorts Resurrection WAS The Spying Game and the Shrieking Shack

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 39712

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "bluesqueak" <pipdowns at e...> 
wrote:

> 
> Again, I repeat, this is really going to take a long post to prove, 
> but you have to work out the connection backwards, not 
forwards. 
> 
> Dumbledore carefully prevents Voldemort from getting the 
> Philosopher's Stone, but appears to make no effort to, say, 
ensure  that the Riddle's bodies are respectably reburied in a 
secret location (or cremated), or to prevent Voldemort setting up 
in the old  family mansion.  <<

This all assumes that Dumbledore has exact knowledge of the 
spell Voldemort is going to use to accomplish his rebirthing. Are 
you assuming Voldemort  knew he was going to need this 
knowledge and got it from Snape *before* the Potter 
catastrophe? Or that Snape somehow fed him the knowledge 
afterwards? 

It also seems from what Cedric says about taking his body back 
to his parents that interference with a corpse or a resting place 
violates wizarding taboos and may be magically dangerous. 
Consider the curses on the tombs mentioned in PoA. 
Dumbledore might be extremely reluctant to interfere with even a 
Muggle burial.

And why assume that cremation would remove whatever 
magical properties the "bone of the father" contains? 

It would also seem that Dumbledore's ability to keep watch over 
non-magical places is limited, since he says that his information 
about Frank Bryce came from the Muggle newspapers.

According to your scenario, which rather turns the series into a 
LeCarre style spy novel, what happens to doing what is right 
rather than what is easy? If Dumbledore is willing to do whatever 
is necessary to win, rather than whatever is necessary to lead a 
moral life, then there's no difference between him and Crouch or 
Fudge. That was LeCarre's point, but I don't think it's JKR's. 

I also can't see Voldemort allowing Lucius to use the diary. I 
think Lucius didn't dare use the diary until after PS/SS because 
up until then he wasn't sure what had happened to Voldemort. It 
wouldn't have been safe for Lucius to conspire with young Riddle 
until he was very very sure that the mature Dark Lord was out of 
the way...the last thing Voldemort would want is "another dark 
lord competing with him."

Pippin
agreeing with David that it can all be made to seem contrived 
because JKR is contriving it, and disagreeing that a battle 
between good and evil is only suitable for children's books.