The Truth..Slughorn and Dumbledore: Death, act 1

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 137111

grindieloe:
I really want to believe that DD is alive and he's just playing a
Slughorn... but, the only thing that makes me think that he must be
dead is the portrait in the Headmasters's Office. How could he be in
the portrait if he isn't dead? Would it be possible to fake something
like that I wonder?

vmonte:
Yeah, I know what you mean--and you may be right. I'm going to add
something here that is going to upset a lot of people. But here it
goes... :)

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This is from an essay I read at The Sugar Quill:

'Oh, look!' said Ginny, as they drew nearer, pointing at the very
heart of the bell jar.

Drifting along in the sparkling current inside was a tiny, jewel-
bright egg. As it rose in the jar, it cracked open and a hummingbird
emerged, which was carried to the very top of the jar, but as it fell
on the draught its feathers became bedraggled and damp again, and by
the time it had been borne back to the bottom of the jar it had been
enclosed once more in its egg.

'Keep going!' said Harry sharply, because Ginny showed signs of
wanting to stop and watch the egg's progress back into a bird.

'You dawdled enough by that old arch!' she said crossly, but followed
him past the bell jar to the only door behind it.

"As we all know, the Department of Mysteries keeps reserve stocks of
abstract concepts for research purposes. Not just any abstract
concepts, in fact, but the mysteries of humankind (Death, Love, Time,
The Future, The Universe, The Human Brain
). Ginny seems to be
fascinated with time, for reasons which we can only guess. Would she
like more time? Does she have an affinity to the concept (unknowingly
freezing it to get Snitches from under people's noses, perhaps)?"
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vmonte again:

So Harry is mesmerized with death (the arch) and Ginny with time (the
jar). 

In HBP we see Ginny pick a maggot (death again) out of Harry's hair. 
Is Ginny going to save Harry by changing or manipulating time?

Is this some kind of foreshadowing? Time-turners? Is Ginny's patronus
a phoenix?

I also like how the word draught is included in the description for
the bird.

Just throwing it out there...

Vivian

http://www.sugarquill.net/index.php?action=gringotts&st=ginny2