[HPforGrownups] Re: TBAY: Stoned Harry

[Laura Huntley]

No: HPFGUIDX 38623

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    Laura rolls up her pant legs and wades out into the tepid blue-green water of Theory Bay where Stoned!Harry is wandering listlessly near the shore.  Cautiously, she extends a hand toward him and makes a "C'mere" gesture.   The salt water slaps playfully against her knees while small silver fish dart around her ankles.  Stoned!Harry blinks at her with glazed eyes and meanders over, tripping on the wavelets.
         
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Cindy said:
>Yes, it all adds up.  Stoned!Harry is destined to die a death as a 
>sacrificial lamb to spare others from an awful fate.  A death 
>by . . .  uh . . .  by decapitation.

Shhh!! Don't say that in front of him!  He's delicate.  Look how pale his cheeks are.

Anyway, you left out an important part of the equation if you're trying to draw parallels between Harry and Christ..Yes, Christ sacrificed his life in order to save the world...But that wasn't enough.  He was then *resurrected* (rebirth...phoenix, anyone?).  Without the resurrection, the cruxifiction is meaningless.

So what does this mean in the context of JKR's story?   Well...perhaps Harry will die -- or appear to be dead -- without taking Voldemort with him...and *then* he'll "rise again" and take V out when the Dark Lord least expects it.

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    Shipmate Laura takes Stoned!Harry's hand in her own and squeezes it reassuringly.
    "It's okay, you see?" She tells him. "You won't be *really* dead.  It'll only hurt a little bit."
    Stoned!Harry smiles shyly and nods, his over-dilated pupils full of trust.

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Errol asked:
>.but..why would Voldemort 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?

    Dumbledore only created Harry for the *potential* of immortality.  The same potential Tom Riddle was born with.  However, the spells that UNLEASH that potential cannot be done until after birth...perhaps only Dumbledore knows them?  Anyway, Volde wants to kill Harry because, in my variation of the theory, the prophecy that a Dark Lord with the potential of immortality will be defeated by a Light Lord with the same potential.

Errol continues:
>Even IF Dumbledore helped `create' Tom (*What* was he thinking of,
>mixing with the Slytherin line anyway? And why leave Tom to grow up in a 
>muggle orphanage?), why would Tom merely have the *potential* for 
>immortality, while Harry has it inherent at birth?

Remember, when Dumbledore created Tom, he was still very young and foolish and in love with his own power.  He figured that by creating Tom he had done his fair share of preventing the "Dark Lord" from taking over, and he didn't have time to mess with some kid.  Maybe the prophecy also specified that the Light Lord would be raise by Muggles?  Anyway, it was creating Tom (and therefore, the Dark Lord in the prophecy) that was the BANG! that made Dumbledore go wise and good.  Realizing that you may have doomed the world makes you responsible in a hurry.

Also,  under my variation on the theory, Dumbledore couldn't just choose two random people..they had to have something *special* in them (especially the mom) to make them compatible with the spells he preformed to make the baby Stoned.

To your last question, either 1) they both had/have only the potential 2) perhaps Dumbledore perfected his method with Harry..or he preformed the final spell on Harry and not Tom...perhaps he didn't have the final spell formulated when Tom was made?

hmm..

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    Stoned!Harry is tapping Shipmate Laura's shoulder as she expounds on her ideas, gesticulating wildly.  Finally, when she pauses for breath, he shoves something in front of her nose.  It is a small golden ball with whirling wings.
    "Oh, clever boy, did you catch that all by yourself?"  She exclaims. Stoned!Harry looks pleased.

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laura


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