TBAY: Stoned Harry

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No: HPFGUIDX 38615

Much thanks, Cindy, for giving us a deck on the Big Bang Destroyer.  
Rowing a kayak is just so much
 work, isn't it?  And Stoned!Harry 
really isn't doing much to help, is he?

Here, Harry.  Have a bag of chips.  

A few more can(n)ons to add to Dicentra's excellent list


1.	Harry's holly wand
. symbol of rebirth, Christ, etc.
2.	The griffin of Gryffindor
 symbol of salvation
3.	Willow and stag are both symbols of the Tree of Life
4.	Willow is also a symbol of miraculous births.

(And, Dicentra, I'm not too worried about Eloise's protests 
either.  `Cause even if yews always hang about graveyards, it's still 
Quite Significant that yew is V's wand wood.)

Errol wrote:
<<:tries to put uneasy feeling into words: 
but..why would Voldmort
try to kill Harry again & again if he knew he was immortal, and thus 
unkillable? If one argues that he didn't know about the living
stone part, then there would be no reason to go after Harry, would 
there?>>

There, there.  Don't worry; I have an answer!  Actually, I can offer 
two, and you can take your pick.

My pet theory (Bangier, I think) is that Voldemort wasn't really 
trying to kill Harry that night.  At least, not right away.  Nope, he 
was Up to Something Else, trying to suck out Harry's immortality 
somehow.  That's why there weren't swarms of DE's around when Sirius, 
etc. got there.  That's why the death of the Potters wasn't just 
delegated to someone else. V. was on a personal mission that only he 
and Wormtail knew about.  (Remember, we only have Fake!Moody's word 
that Harry's been AK'd!!)

You don't like that one?  Well, if you go with the "AK is 
unforgivable because it steals souls theory," AK-ing Harry would 
allow V. to absorb all of his powers.

As to why he keeps trying:  Well, that explains the gleam, you know!  
V. thinks now that he's got Harry's blood, he doesn't need Harry 
around for immortality anymore!  He can just experiment on himself.  
So Dumbledore's gleaming `cause he realizes V. doesn't fully 
understand how all this stuff works.  And he figures V. may leave 
Harry alone for a bit while trying his doomed-to-fail immortality 
experiments.

Nuri wrote about the Slytherin super-sized meal:
<<Lily heir of Slytherin? <frowns> Correct me if I'm wrong, please: 
hadn't JKR said somewhere Lily was a Gryffindor? and what do you mean 
by the wording in CoS and deliberate error?>>

See, here again, this is an optional up-size.  I'm not too sure about 
it myself, to tell you the truth. But it would be bangy, yes?  Sure, 
JKR said Lily was a Gryffindor.  That's part of the appeal of Lily-
Heir-of-Slytherin:  it's about choices, not birth.  Sure, she might 
have Slytherin blood, but Lily chose Gryffindor, much like her son 
did.

The "deliberate error" thing:  Dumbledore tells Harry in CoS (in my 
edition, anyway) that Voldemort is the last "ancestor" of Slytherin, 
when Harry expresses fear that he might be related to Slytherin.

Here's JKR's reply, when asked about it: "Ah, you spotted the 
deliberate error. Yes, it should read "descendent." That's been 
changed in subsequent editions. (Keep hold of the "ancestor" one, 
maybe it'll be valuable one day!)" 
http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/author/transcript2.htm

The question is, what does she mean by deliberate...

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Satisfied with her day's work, Captain Caroline heads across the deck 
for a little relaxation... (decides to use both Cindy & Dicentra's 
fish to help keep relations friendly among the crew.)

Caroline
--always thrilled to help displace a few Snapetheories (except 
GOLDSIEVE, of course)