Coherence II

[dicentra63]

No: HPFGUIDX 39073

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "bluesqueak" <pipdowns at e...> wrote:
I forgot the most significant clue of all about 
> Scabbers - the fact that pupils are allowed to bring a toad OR a cat 
> OR an owl, but nobody ever mentions that Ron shouldn't have a rat. 
> Nice spellwork, Mr Pettigrew).

To my mind, the most obvious clue that Scabbers is not what he seems
is that we learn in PoA that he is missing one finger, and then later
we hear that all that was left of Peter was his finger.  That should
have been a neon sign (yes, I missed it too), but she mentions
Scabbers's missing finger so non-chalantly it's easy to skim over.
 
David remarked: 
> > But the real eye-opener to me is that *Neville* bounced when his 
> > uncle dropped him from a window; at Hogwarts, he is injured when he 
> > does his spectacular jump in the flying lesson.  I had always seen 
> > this as a Flint. But...
>

Pip answered: 
> You're right, it does rather suggest that Neville is in some way 
> suppressing his natural magical ability.

It could also be indicative of the different heights at which he fell.
 I believe Uncle Algie was in a second-story window, but Neville was
flying higher than that when he fell.  Yes?  I don't remember.  But
don't take that to mean RepressingMagic!Neville is not valid. 

> Next section:  'Why can't Quirrel touch Harry?'. This does not at any 
> point say that Voldemort is going to be unable to touch Harry. What 
> we are told about Voldemort is that he doesn't understand love, that 
> he doesn't understand that Harry will be marked by his mother's 
> sacrifice, that he doesn't realise that it gives Harry *some* 
> protection [my emphasis].
> 
>  Dumbledore's last line is
> "Quirrel, full of hatred, greed and ambition, sharing his soul with 
> Voldemort, could not touch you for this reason."
> 
> Note that Quirrel is the subject of that sentence, not Voldemort. We 
> are left believing that Voldemort cannot touch Harry because of the 
> way the information about Quirrel, and  the information about 
> Voldemort, is mixed together.

And yet... in the rebirthing scene, Voldemort taunts Harry by stroking
his face with that long, cold white finger and saying "see, I can
touch you now..."

--Dicentra, who thinks Pip is right about making NO assumptions about
anything, especially when Dumbledore is talking