Sally's Spirit WAS Re: Shared thoughts

[a_reader2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 108787

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
> <arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> 
> > Kneasy:
> > How certain is this timeline?
> > Yes, it was 50 years since the last opening of the Chamber, but my
> > understanding is that CoS was set in 1995 or maybe a year or so 
> later.
> 
> Geoff;
> Surely it's fairly well established that Harry was born in 1980 so 
> his First Year at Hogwarts was 1991/2 and thus his Second Year was 
> 1992/3. Harry hears the Basilisk's voice for the first time after 
> doing his detention with Lockhart in September 1992 which dates the 
> previous events as 1942, if it is exactly the 50th anniversary.

Carolyn:
Alas, RL has temporarily interrupted the post I was writing in 
response to Kneasy, but on timelines, may I respectfully refer you 
gents to my post:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/106265

and Pip's much funnier reply:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/106272

What is bothering me about all this possession stuff is that, 
frankly, Voldie/Tom has not been that great a catch for Salazar, has 
he? Waits 1000 years, finds a suitable victim, who then cocks things 
up on a mega scale. After 20 years in the wilderness trying to get 
the Evil Overlord rules by heart, Voldie finally has a go at carrying 
out Salazar's commands, succeeds up to a point, but screws up with 
Harry, gets banished again, and then he re-appears as a cardboard cut-
out that really wouldn't frighten anyone.

As jodel_from_aol pointed out in the Changeling theory "his 
[Voldie's] performances reflect nothing of the charisma and power 
that they must once have displayed. The current Lord Voldemort is 
quite literally 'not all there' ".

Either JKR is amazed we don't find him frightening (rather in the 
same way that she is apparently taken aback by the massed enthusiasm 
for Snape & Draco), or she is having us on, yet again, and the real 
evil that Harry is up against is something rather different and yet 
to be explained.

Carolyn