Firenze and Forests (Was Re: Trelawney's Future Role)

[a_reader2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 97422

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> 
> DD whitters on about calling Voldemort by his name, not 
> "he who must not be named" So why does DD call him Tom?
> DD drones on about choices; IMO it won't be Harry's choices
> that matter in the end, it'll be Tom's, because Tom and 
> Voldemort are not quite the same thing. Remove Tom and
> Voldy is no more.
> 

Carolyn:
A post from the old Yahoo Club archives (3761) offers an interesting 
perspective on this, suggesting that DD might be preparing Harry for 
a role that once might have been Tom's.

The theory is based on the similarity between Tom and Harry (looks, 
background etc). It could be that after Salazar left, the remaining 
three founders left some kind of information for future 
headmasters/heads of house which would help them identify the 
champion who could eternally help fight the good fight against the 
divisive evil that Salazar had created, and which would always 
threaten the WW if left unchecked.

DD may have thought Tom met all the criteria in the early 1930s, 
hence his close interest in him. However, Tom became tempted by the 
forces of evil ('its our choices'..etc etc), and he was 
disappointed.  

When DD heard Trelawny's prophecy many years later, he realised he 
had a couple of new candidates and acted accordingly.

It could be that Tom knows about some of this, but realised that his 
role was to be DD's weapon (as is Harry's) in the good fight, and 
decided he'd rather be bad, but immortal. This also assumes that DD 
is some kind of eternal re-incarnation of the forces for good (hence 
the Fawkes-as-pet clue).