What were the corridor dreams ?

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No: HPFGUIDX 116959


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" <delwynmarch at y...> wrote:
> 
> lotsa snips> 
> 
> 5. The dreams started long before LV even thought of using Harry to
> pick the Prophecy up.
> 
> 6. The dreams became longer and longer, and yet it took almost a year
> for them to reach their end. Why ?
> 
> So finally I reach my real question : what were those dreams ???
> 
> Here are some ideas I've had.
> 
> 1. They were real dreams that LV was having every night.
> 
> 2. They were dreams LV was deliberately implanting in Harry's mind.
> I doubt it, because :
> 
> 3. They were real explorations of the DoM by LV in his body.
> Unlikely, because :
> 
> 4. The only other possibility I can think of, is that those visions
> are real explorations of the DoM by LV *out of his body*.
> I like this one, because :


I agree that there's something very odd about the whole episode.
Consider:
Only Harry or Voldy could take the globe from the shelf. Even if
Voldy didn't know this I bet DD and those in the Order who worked
at the Ministry did. 
So why have a guard on the door?
Any of Voldy's hench-wizards grabbing the globe immediately gets
stricken with the multiple congropolis or the galloping pox or
whatever it was - and if Voldy himself turned up one dozy wizard
isn't going to stop him. He'd breeze through him as if he wasn't there.

In actual fact even if Voldy  did get his hands on the globe, would
it change anything? It's not  as if he wasn't trying to  knock off
Harry at every opportunity anyway. The Prophesy would tell him
nothing important. It's only use to the Order is as a  decoy. 
But a decoy to what?
And the only person worth placing a guard against is Harry himself.
He could take the globe *and* he could be stopped by one wizard.

Perhaps the dreams, or the later one's at least, were deliberate
enticements. Get Harry fascinated (which he was) and he might
do something about it. But he didn't. Not until that last dream
which was different from the rest - it was in the daytime. Not only
that, but Harry fell asleep in very curious circumstances - in the
middle of an exam. A class maybe, with a droning voice pouring
boring stuff into your ears, but an exam? Very odd. At just the
right moment to catch that fake vision too. What a coincidence!
I don't like coincidences like that. They make me suspicious.

It makes me wonder if some of the other 'dreams', the ones
after Arthur had been attacked, after Voldy realised that Harry was
tuning in, were real either, 'cos he sees no guard from the Order 
there even though we know the Order has a rota. I think it
highly likely that these dreams of dancing down Ministry corridors
were not of the actuality, not after Arthur got bitten. 

Mind you, there's no guard  the night that Harry finally drops in,
something that has never been explained. It's another of those
blank spots that leaves questions dangling. Was there no guard?
If not why not? Had the DEs got rid of the guard - or had the
guard let the DEs in? Co-operated, in fact.

Then there's the strange thing - Voldy eventually turned up at the
Ministry. Couldn't he have turned up an hour or two earlier and
taken the globe himself? Why have a dozen or so DEs lurking
behind the woodwork for - what, a couple of hours? Sitting
around, hoping for, expecting Harry to turn up.

Another couple of questions.
How did they know that Harry could get away from Hogwarts?
How did they know that Harry knew how to get into the Ministry?

One possible answer is that Voldy can see through Harry's eyes,
he knows what Harry's doing. He can affect Harry's behaviour, we
know that (the urge to attack DD). But once you're in somebody's
mind, not only can you rummage through memories, influence
actions, you must know what they're doing - you're viewing it in
real-time. He saw Harry coming. 

It's probably no accident that Harry's scar was prickling on a more
or less continuous basis whereas before it only happened when
Voldy was thinking about him, because Voldy is thinking about him
-a lot.

Harry's had a visitor.
Has he gone yet?

Kneasy