Heartstring / Snape by Pip / Animagi

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No: HPFGUIDX 39723

ArchaeoloJames wrote:

> Does anyone even know what a "Dragon Heartstring" is? I see no 
> reason why this could not either be external, or at least non-fatal
> to take.

According to www.dictionary.com, "One of the nerves or tendons 
formerly believed to brace and sustain the heart." IE, inside the 
ribcage.

Porphyria wrote:

> cruelly throwing his past in his face shortly prior to this 
> ("my memory is as good as it ever was").

I take it you mean his past as a Death Eater: "You're a person who 
committed several murders and you're condemning a person who 
attempted only one murder. Pot and kettle." One time I saw where 
someone had a totally opposite understanding of that incident: that 
other listie said that Dumbledore was comfortingly reassuring Snape 
that he remembered both the wrongs done him by Sirius and the heroic 
service against Voldemort (as spy) that Severus had given. Me, I 
always read it as Dumbledore's polite way of saying: "Stop nagging 
me! I heard  you the first time!"

Pip Squeak wrote:

> [inability of] making physical contact with Voldemort in Albania
> after the  Philosopher's Stone disaster. Owls, and other indirect
> means of contact, probably were possible. 

I don't think it's possible to communicate with a mist by owl ... how 
would the mist write a reply letter? If he took over a rodent's body, 
would its eyes even be able to read, let alone its paws write? 
Between the death of Quirell and the arrival of Pettigrew, Voldemort 
had no human body. 

> The spell Voldemort uses requires a servant's flesh and an enemy's
> blood, which are both rather widely available. It also requires the 
> bone of Voldemort's father, which is much more limited in supply
> and could have been destroyed. The fact that it wasn't suggests 
> that Dumbledore was deliberately trying to make sure Voldemort
> only had one resurrection option open to him. 

This requires that Dumbledore knew what resurrection spell Voldemort 
was going to use. I had the impression that no resurrection spells 
were known (which is not to say that they had not been created, just 
that they were not recorded) --> and therefore Voldemort had had to 
invent his own resurrection spell (why not, he already created his 
own immortality spells) --> and therefore Dumbledore could not have 
known what the ingredients would be. Unless Eloise's suggestion is 
right: " I do find it interesting that he's resurrected via a 
*potion*. And I do wonder if Voldemort, believing Snape still loyal 
to himself, sent Wormtail to him for advice."  

When Pip Squeak wrote:
> > If Fudge had sent out a search party immediately, might
> > Pettigrew have been recaptured?
Eloise replied:
> Have you ever tried to catch a rat?

A search party of terriers. 
Accompanied by wizards who know the spell to force Animagi to resume 
human form (which I think may be Homorphus).

Pippin wrote:

> There's no room for a full grown stag to negotiate the tunnel to
> the shack. 

Yes, I too envision James rushing to the rescue in human form. But I 
think he had to turn into a stag to hold the werewolf off while Snape 
made his getaway (or at least to save himself from the werewolf). I 
don't see HOW Snape could have looked back to see the werewolf (and 
then run even faster away) without also seeing the stag... 

Hana wrote:

> Oh, and since it's obvious that an animagus needs to keep 
> his/her intelligence when transforming so that they can change
> back, can the same be said for people transfigured by others 
> like Draco-Ferret? 

No, according to Quidditch Through the Ages:
"The witch or wizard who finds him- or herself transfigured into a 
bat may take to the air, but, having a bat's brain, they are sure to 
forget where they want to go the moment they take flight."