Trelawny Prediction (WAS: Re: Three Missing Death Eaters)

[Margaret Thomas]

No: HPFGUIDX 52875




>    Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 07:04:44 -0000
>    From: "nobodysrib <nobodysrib at yahoo.com>"
> <nobodysrib at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Trelawny Prediction (WAS: Re: Three Missing
> Death Eaters)
> 
> melpomene wrote: 
> >...And my brain does one of those psychodelic
> double 
> > takes and gloms onto Professor Trelawny's (sorry
> this isn't going 
> to 
> > be a perfect quote) comment about that "faithful
> servant" (there's 
> > that term again) being "chained these twelve
> years." 
> 
> Me:
> My own brain did a psychedelic double take when I
> read this.  Turned 
> around much of my perspective.  But then I dug out
> the actual quote. 
> (note: no mention of the word "faithful.")  I divide
> the prediction 
> into 8 points.  (I added in numbers to point these
> out):
> "The Dark Lord lies alone and friendless, abandoned
> by his 
> followers.  (1) His servant has been chained these
> twelve years.  (2)
> Tonight, before midnight... (3) the servant will
> break free (4) and 
> set out (5) to rejoin his master.  (6) The Dark Lord
> will rise again 
> (7) with his servant's aid, (8) greater and more
> terrible than ever 
> he was.  Tonight... before midnight... the
> servant... will set out... 
> to rejoin... his master..."
> -PoA hardcover, pg 324
>  
> I had always assumed that the servant was Pettigrew,
> since he is the 
> only one, to my knowledge, to whom all eight of
> these points apply.  


I've assumed that the "servant" was Crouch, Jr.  And
after starting to re-read GoF yet again last night, I
still feel that way.  Voldemort doesn't have many
"kind" things to say about Pettigrew in Chapter 1 of
GoF (The Riddle House).  Don't have my book with me,
but LV as much as says that the only reason Wormtail
is at his side is the result of Wormtail's cowardice. 
When Wormtail tries to defend himself, naming Bertha
Jorkins' capture as proof that he's useful, LV
dismisses her usefulness as being purely coincidental,
iow, Wormtail didn't deliberately pursue her as an
informant.

In contrast, we have *ahem* poor Crouch, Jr., object
of his father's shame, freed from Azkaban through his
mother's grief but re-imprisoned (a.k.a. [1] chained)
in his father's house.  [2] By midnight, the servant
will [3] "break free" (of his disguise as
Crouch!Moody) to reclaim his rightful place at [4,5]
LV's side as the Death Eater he truly is.  LV will [6]
"rise again" with the [7] servant's aid, as
Crouch!Moody is responsible for planting the Triwizard
Cup portkey that delivers Harry -- who is instrumental
to [8] LV's successful and terrible restoration -- to
the graveyard.

Mind you, Crouch!Moody never makes it as far as
rejoining his master...but a) Since Crouch!Moody had
thus far been successful in executing the plan, LV
didn't have reason to believe he wouldn't make it and
b) At some level, I think LV views all his minions as
dispensable -- you can't put all your eggs in one
basket -- so he's not too reliant on any one Death
Eater to help him out.

- M.

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