Finding the Cave

[saraquel_omphale]

No: HPFGUIDX 136707

Jen wrote: 
> I don't know, I'm going to think on this one more. I'm tired now, 
> too! Need a few ibuprofen.
> Jen

Saraquel:
My sympathies ;-) lots of work for not much result eh?  Thanks for 
plodding through my post and giving it such a thorough response, I'm 
not altogether sure it deserved it.  I liked your comments on DD 
confidence in himself and Harry, 

>Jen: Maybe it's supreme confidence in his abilities and the people
>he surrounds himself with? Once DD got his promise from Harry, he
>knows Harry won't break his word. That's not something Harry does.
>And Dumbledore also trusts Harry's abilites to get them home--he's
>proven himself over and over. And I truly belive Dumbledore expected
>Severus would patch him up once he got back to Hogwarts because
>that's what *Severus* does. He didn't account for the DE's at
>Hogwarts in his plan, however. I think if anything, Dumbledore's
>unwavering trust was at the heart of his belief they would make it
>out alive.

I think you might be right here, DD has had a somewhat cavalier 
attitude to the information he holds.  He seems to have kept a lot 
of it to himself, never believing that he could snuff it and 
everything would be lost with him. I could see that in some ways 
this is his strength - he who dares wins, but it is also a strategic 
weakness of giant proportions as we now see.  Harry does not know 
everything that DD knew, and now it is too late.

So how about we just say the cave smells particularly fishy, but we 
just can't work out what species? 

I'm wondering if working on what's in the potion and what happens to 
DD when he takes it will help resolve some of the questions.  But 
there are so many ifs and buts about that, it's going to take a 
while to put something together.  Perhaps I'll become a shipper, it 
seems the grass over there is a lot more fertile.

Saraquel