[HPforGrownups] Re: The Hand of Glory

[Gabriel Fey]

No: HPFGUIDX 115337


>  >mhbobbin:
> I hope we see it again. There's alot you can do with a creepy
> independent-minded hand.  Dean Thomas' boggart is a severed hand.
> Dean is also, I believe, a Half-Blood. And an artist who offers to
> forge Harry's permission slip in PoA.
> 
> Interesting quote about Draco **getting** the hand from B&B.
> 
> mhbobbin

Gabriel:

Actually, a Hand of Glory shouldn't have an independent mind - I don't 
know where the moving came from in the CoS movie, and Dean's 
severed-hand-boggart was probably from some nightmare he had. I wouldn't 
be terribly surprised, however, if Draco *had* snatched the Hand of 
Glory. It's a useful sort of a thing. Morbid -_-, but useful.

If I remember this correctly, a Hand of Glory in its traditional use 
holds a candle, and can light the way for a thief without the thief 
being seen. I also know a variation on the Hand of Glory spell 
(actually, I've got a copy of it) that makes use of the Hand to 
*protect* the caster from evil. More the sort of thing Harry would need, 
I'd say. (Another variation, found in _The Iron Dragon's Daughter_, by 
Michael Swanwick, uses the Hand as a homing device - a person's credit 
cards are rubber-banded onto it, and it tugs towards where the person 
keeps their money.)

Personally, although I'd love to know if Draco actually has it, I'm more 
interested in whose hand it is. Any thoughts, anyone? ^_^

- Gabriel Fey