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

[Eustace_Scrubb]

No: HPFGUIDX 105105

Eric Oppen wrote:
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> 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?

Eustace_Scrubb:
Interesting thought...the cauldron in the Little Hangleton graveyard
is really odd.  I think you're right about it being unusual in the WW,
at least Harry notes that it's larger than any he'd ever used.

It's also interesting that it's made of _stone_ (I think the Black
Crochan was iron, wasn't it?).  And Wormtail is made to _push_ it
around the graveyard, with water in it.  He really must have been
working out between the previous August and the end of GOF.  Couldn't
he have levitated it into place?  I wonder where it came from?  Could
it have been conjured for the occasion?

If the details of the re-birth of Voldemort become important later
(and we already know some of the details are important), than maybe it
will turn up again.

Cheers,

Eustace_Scrubb