The rebirth of Lord Voldemort---a thought I had

[Eric Oppen]

No: HPFGUIDX 104982

I was reading along (hard to keep up; my 'puter's acting oddly, and running
rather slowly) and I came to a post mentioning how Lord V. was reborn from a
huge cauldron.

It suddenly struck me that this is something I'd seen before.  In Lloyd
Alexander's "Prydain" young-adult fantasy novels, one of the magical items
to be found is the Black Crochan (a "Crochan" is a cauldron), which is used
to make the "Cauldron-Born" undead warriors that serve the evil Death-Lord
Arawn.  Like a lot of other things in this series, this comes from real
mythology---in the earliest versions of the King Arthur story, it was a
cauldron, not the Holy Grail, that the knights went in search of.

I doubt that cauldrons of that size are in common use in the WW---could the
cauldron itself be a significant object?  In Alexander's books, the rightful
owners comment that after Arawn's had his paws on it, it's ruint and fit
only to make more Cauldron-Born, and the good guys have to destroy it---at
the cost of a life.

I wonder when/if we'll see that cauldron again?