TBAY: Stoned!Harry

[brinforest]

No: HPFGUIDX 38672


Ahoy there...

a lurker by the name of Brin approaches the Beach Blanket Party with 
her finger in the air. "'Scuse me", she calls out. "Just had to put 
in a comment that nobody seems to have thought of... I guess... I 
didn't bring any can(n)ons, because you seem to have a more than 
ample supply already... hope you don't mind..."


--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "dicentra63" <dicentra at x> wrote:
  
> "Why do you think Dumbledore created Tom in the first place, if 
that's
> what he did?  Do you think it had anything to do with defeating
> Grindelwald in 1945?" 
> 

Now what if Tom was created by Grindelwald? If Grindelwald is a 
Hitler allegory, wouldn't it be interesting for him to have left a 
nasty surprise behind... a child who, even with Grindelwald gone, 
grows up putting purity of blood above everything else - and becomes 
the most powerful Dark Wizard ever? Symbolic possibilities, mmm?

And when it comes to Dumbledore "creating" Harry, or enhancing the 
unborn or newborn Harry or whatever.. I don't like this idea very 
much. I would prefer it if Dumbledore was just *aware* of all these 
significant, ahem, alleged features that would abound in Lily and 
James's child (whose birth, even if destined, was the result of love 
and not a science experiment), and has always acted according to some 
subtle knowledge or instinct of how to protect and guide Harry 
without actually "running his life", or perhaps preventing his fate, 
if you like. This way, Dumbledore would not have practised any high-
risk and morally suspicious baby engineering himself. I just *feel* 
(at least so far, lol) that actively creating or enhancing a baby, 
even with the motive of ridding the world of evil, is not 
Dumbledore's thing. 

But I realise, of course, what interesting moral issues it would 
offer, too - Dumbledore having to face Harry, the actual flesh-and-
blood boy, a child, complete with soul and feelings, and always know 
what that child is destined for. What he was *made* for.

Oh well, got to be off now... thanks for the quiche, is there a 
recipe for that somewhere..? 



Brin