Possession

[clio44a]

No: HPFGUIDX 90571

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_reader2003" 
>  
> > Now for a  wild guess. Diary!Tom was destroyed when the diary was 
> > destroyed.
> > The spirit of Salazar Slytherin will be destroyed when a certain 
> > something in the Chamber is destroyed.
> > 
> > Expect a big show-down under Hogwarts!
> > 
> > Kneasy
> 
> Carolyn:
> 
> Well, what else do you expect if you tickle a sleeping dragon ? Bet 
> Dumbledore knows exactly what's down there..can't remember the name 
> of the dragon under the Lonely Mountain (?Smorg?) but same 
archetype. 
[snip]
> Dumbledore knows all this too, but also knows that if the dragon is 
> killed, not only will he die, but the source of Hogwart's magic 
will 
> disappear forever...
[snip]
> Next creaky installment of this totally unsupported theory coming 
> soon ...



Mmh, interesting. A dragon in the mountain ...  connected to the 
castle ... guarding whatever ... never tickle the sleeping 
dragon/sleeping magic...
Isn't there a myth about a king trying to built a castle (Uther 
Pendragon, IIRC), but the walls of the castle won't hold because of 
the dragon in the mountain, that has been awaken? And Merlin realizes 
that?
Dragons seem to be harmless in JKRs world. Can there be something 
like a metaphorical dragon? Slytherin's power itself, maybe? After 
all a mini-dragon is the symbol of Slytherin. And there was already 
the basilisk as a symbol of Slytherin's evilness.

Btw, I believe the name of the dragon in the Lonely Mountain in The 
Hobbit is Smaug.

Just thinking aloud,
Clio