The Riddle House revisited - harmless TBAY reference

[dicentra63 <dicentra@xmission.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49774

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "David <dfrankiswork at n...>"
<dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:

> The third possibility is that the owner is an independent (and 
> likely untrustworthy) supporter.  After Voldemort's fall, this 
> wealthy supporter acquires the house because he knows, or guesses, 
> that any return by Voldemort would involve its use.  He keeps it 
> against the eventuality of Voldemort's return, in the hope of being 
> able either to prevent it or control it.  
> 
> Conclusions: Malfoy may well be the owner, but the death of Frank 
> Bryce militates against the Spying Game/MAGICDISHWASHER hypothesis 
> (see www.hpfgu.org.uk/faq/hypotheticalley.html for details.  My 
> apologies for getting this reference wrong last time).

What if the owner--through a third-party façade--is Dumbledore?  What
if he bought the house using the name of an independent or someone
whom Voldemort suspected was his follower?

He then would have been maintaining it empty, making the bone, flesh,
blood spell more appealing (being more convenient).  Of course,
Dumbledore wouldn't have planned for Frank Bryce's death--he might
have assumed Voldemort would be more discrete about his presence. 
Bryce's death wouldn't have shown up in the London papers, surely, but
it would have been mentioned in a smaller, local paper.  One that
Dumbledore has been reading specifically for the purpose of keeping an
eye on happenings at Riddle Manor.

MAGIC DISHWASHER it is.

--Dicentra