The Gleam & the Hiss

[lipglossusa]

No: HPFGUIDX 36228

cindy wrote:

> A few of us, just one or two maybe, have theorized that 
Dumbledore's 
> Gleam means he has seen some fatal weakness in Voldemort's rebirth 
> strategy.  Eh, maybe.
> But if that is so, then how can Crouch/Moody's behavior be 
> explained?  
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> Apparently, Crouch/Moody attaches some significance to the use of 
> Harry's blood.  I think it's reasonable to conclude that Moody does 
> not believe the use of Harry's blood is Voldemort's fatal error. 
> That means Crouch/Moody (and by extension, Voldemort) believes that 
> using Harry's blood is not a fatal error for the Dark Side.  Why 
> would Crouch/Moody and Voldemort, both smart, talented, experienced 
> Dark Wizards come to the exact opposite conclusion as Dumbledore?
> 

Well, I guess that we would have to figure out what exactly 
Dumbledore thinks is "in" Harry's blood that might give him an 
advantage.  If we go by the Gleam theory, I would think that Harry 
saving Pettigew's life in the Shrieking Shack could be one thing that 
both Voldemort and Moody (presumably) don't know about.  Perhaps 
Pettigrew's debt to Harry is somehow imprinted in Harry's blood. 
Also, I wouldn't agree that Moody is an experienced enough Dark 
Wizard to recognize an error-- he's crafty, a great actor, and he's 
also insane.  He spent several years in Azkaban, then smuggled out to 
spend the last ten under an Imperius curse.  He was only 19 before he 
was imprisoned in Azkaban- that means he was just 2 years out of 
Hogwarts.  I think it probably takes some time fighting in the battle 
of good and evil to learn the pros and cons of using people's blood 
in raising the almost-dead.

Cindy says,
> I think there might be a parallel between the Priori Incantantem 
> plot element and the Harry's blood plot element.  In the Priori 
> Incantantem sequence, Dumbledore was aware of a critical fact that 
> Voldemort did not know -- that Harry's wand shared a core with 
> Voldemort's.  So if Crouch/Moody still thinks Voldemort is 
> invincible and 
> deserving of Crouch/Moody's loyalty, what is it that Dumbledore 
> knows that Voldemort doesn't know?  There are probably lots of 
> possibilities, but the only one that comes to mind is Trelawney's 
> prediction.  That said, I'm still unsure what this prediction might 
> be.

I like this theory, but wouldn't Trelawney's first prediction would 
have already had to have come true for Dumbledore to know that it was 
a "real" prediction?  After all, when Harry tells him about what she 
said during her trance, Dumbledore has never doubted that Voldemort 
would come back, and therefore would consider her prediction to have 
real merit.  

Marina