Back to the cave and Dumbledore's screams

[barbara_mbowen]

No: HPFGUIDX 137557


> Jen: I'm going to start at the potion and work backward. 
Thinking 
> about the way Voldemort's mind works, what kind of potion 
would he 
> make? One suggestion from Merrylinks I *really* liked, but 
couldn't 
> quite make fit in my own mind, was that Voldemort would 
make a 
> potion that forces a person to see his/her own death. That 
would be 
> LV's idea of the worst nightmare! But DD doesn't fear death  <
snip> if it's not facing death, Voldemort's next 
> favorite would be experiencing fear. But not just feeling great 
> fear, the person would have to be defenseless, possibly in 
pain and 
> unable to perform any magic.
> 
>snip
> My guess to his greatest fear is the fact that he's spent his life 
> defending and safeguarding many people and creatures in the 
WW. 
> People depend on him, go to him in emergenices, expect he 
will have 
> the right answers. And most times he does. But what a huge 
burden to 
> carry! So many people depending on him, and what if he lets 
them 
> down, makes one of his 'correpsondingly huge mistakes'? <
snip. I think we saw his greatest fear being played out there, and 
we 
> saw Dumbledore react as he did in the cave--'don't hurt them, 
kill 
> me instead.'
> 
> Jen

This is a good thread and I like Jen's theory that DD is facing his 
greatest fear.  However, she assumes that the potion DD drinks 
was left there by Voldemort.   However, the horcrux has been 
stolen and it's my hunch that the potion has been tampered with 
as well.  If RAB could take that horcrux, why couldn't he/she leave 
a potion meant for Voldemort?  If Voldemort visits his horcruxes, 
he does so alone; he would never trust anyone  with this secret.  
So,  he has defenses against his own potion but not against 
RAB's.  I think RAB is trying to make Voldemort feel fear, grief, 
horror and guilt--as RAB felt himself when forced to do evil as a 
Death Eater.  I think that is the potion DD drank.

Marmelade Mom