Voldemort's Resurrection WAS The Spying Game and the Shrieking Shack

[bluesqueak]

No: HPFGUIDX 39762

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amanda Geist" <editor at t...> wrote:
> Grey Wolf said:
> 
> > My/Pip's theory believes that Dumbledore has been controlling the 
> > way the things should be going, not the timetable they should    
> > follow. <Snip>  in fact, everything
> > started to move when Dumbledore took out the stone from the vault.
> > Before that, everything was a stalemate).
> 
Amanda replied:
> No, Dumbledore's removal of the stone from its vault was a 
precautionary
> measure. Everything was a stalemate before Quirrell took his little 
research
> trip and met Voldemort and got himself possessed (unless you think
> Dumbledore engineered *that* too? Sending someone to be possessed? 
I can't
> buy that). 

Me neither. But I think Dumbledore knew about Voldemort's move from 
those mysterious 'sources' mentioned in CoS.

A truly 'evil' thought has occurred to me, by the way:

Was Scabbers/Pettigrew the first attempt at engineering a Voldemort 
servant-with-a-life-debt; or just the first one that worked?

Certainly explain why Dumbledore picked two extremely dubious DADA 
teachers in years 1 and 2 and then seems to have tried to go for 
competent teachers post-Sirius's escape.

I just have visions of a conversation along the lines of 
'Look, the first one we picked turned out to be actually possessed by 
Voldemort,the second turned out to be the only evil git in the entire 
WW who WASN'T working for Voldemort, do you think we could actually 
get it right this time?'

Pip (The above is a JOKE, Marina, a JOKE [grin] )