Adopted!Harry = TTTR
m.steinberger
steinber at zahav.net.il
Tue May 13 16:01:39 UTC 2003
No: HPFGUIDX 57768
Thank you, Lissa, for your fondness for my theory. It's TAS, or The Admiring Skeptic, and I'm actually a bit curious about whether I'm male or female, in this list's uncollective mind. I'm rather impartial, myself, so y'all can freely third-person my posts "he" or "she" as you please.
In any case, back to HP. As you wrote: Having read others' replies and concluded that your theory truly does
entail a complete life for Baby Riddle and for Harry Potter, I must
meekly object. As GulPlum (aka Richard) noted in the thread on Time
Travel, Rowling's universe doesn't appear to allow two opposing
timelines to occur in the one universe. The results of an act committed
during time travel appear to be unambiguous and absolute.
TAS: But as you later wrote, JKR does imply that changing time can sometimes happen. How, and how to resolve the paradoxes, she hasn't said. GulPlum's version is the usual route, I am sure, but a time-change route supposedly exists, or Hermione wouldn't have been taught to be so panicky about being seen.
Lissa: In my opinion, there is no way, given your theory, that Voldemort could
casually dispatch Harry Potter with a public avada kedavra in the
cemetery in GoF. The Voldemort in your theory is a gloating
god-aspiring maniac. He could not *help* but drag his pitiful alter self
into a private area and confess all his grand plans--and take every
opportunity possible to tell Harry how small and insignificant and
shameful he, Harry, was. LV's ego would not be satisfied with anything
less than making Harry suffer the knowledge of the terrible truth. Of
course, you can disagree with me on this. :)
TAS: I do disagree. I like your description of how V should feel toward Harry, but I don't think his actual, expressed feelings are so hard to square. Harry is not "other" to V; he is property. Harry is the part of himself that he has decided to do without for good reason. He feels about as much for Harry as the long hair you've decided to cut. I don't think V's been following Harry's career much because he doesn't really view Harry as a person. (Truth is, V doesn't view anyone as a person.) Anything Harry's accomplished in life is a big mistake because Harry should have been dead years ago. All V cares about, in the graveyard, is impressing his DEs with the fact that Harry is a big zero, because he can't stand the way this should-be-dead-wood is being given credit for something that the adult V really gets credit for: bringing Harry forward in the first place. The bounced AK (if that is what it was) was due the the forces created by V's godhood preparations and not something infant!Harry had in him. So Harry getting credit irks V to heaven (or the other place).
As for V referring to James, and not announcing his impending godhood, I think he wanted to surprise his DEs with the fact, and not ruin the surprise.
Any acronyms yet?
The Admiring Skeptic
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
More information about the HPforGrownups
archive