Heliopaths

[bohcoo]

No: HPFGUIDX 78892

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Laura Ingalls Huntley" 
<huntleyl at m...> wrote:


Laura's comments: 
> I think you're making too strong of a statement here.  Try 
prefacing that last sentence with "I believe" or the like. ^_^ >

Bohcoo replies, sheepishly,
Ah, yes. My old, "driving a tack with a sledgehammer" approach again, 
eh? Of course the interpretations I set forth are simply my opinion --
and I am always delighted when someone else comes up with a new slant 
that makes me think, "Oh, of course! I never thought of that THAT 
way. . . Thank you (fill in the name) for posting that!" I apologize 
if my statements came across as if I thought I had the one and only 
correct way of seeing the situation. No, no, no -- far from it.



Laura's comments:
>I wouldn't be one bit surprised if Fudge really did have an army of 
heliopaths.  Except...for the life of me, I can't figure out why he 
would keep them in a locked room in the Department of Mysteries. >

Bohcoo replies:
Yes, well, keeping his army of heliopaths at the Department of 
Mysteries would seem not to make sense to me either; other than, 
where else could he keep something like that?  

It could have come about as innocently as heliopaths being captured 
and studied at the Department of Mysteries for the sheer terror of 
their being in existence and Fudge, in his dim-witted drive for 
power, starts to see them as the perfect instruments of war, and off 
we go.

Wouldn't the Department of Mysteries also concern itself, perhaps, 
with concepts of war, terror, the darkest fears of humankind -- as 
well as with Love and Time and Death and all the other well, 
mysteries, of existence? I am sure they must also study all the Dark 
Creatures there as well, wouldn't you think? So, Fudge could very 
well have commandeered the colony of heliopaths at the Ministry for 
study for his own nefarious, power-driven ends. Look at his immediate 
attachment to the dementors as his own personal body guards.



Laura ends with:  
> Anyway, who's to say Fudge doesn't keep the corpses of all the 
goblins he's murdered in that room?>

Bohcoo replies:
So, then -- would that be the Pie Room at the Department of Mysteries?
 


Big grins,
Bohcoo