The Invisible Hand in the CoS - long

[va32h]

No: HPFGUIDX 144830

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "n_longbottom01" 
<n_longbottom01 at y...> wrote:

> Whose invisible hand was it?  Here's my guess: Maybe it takes more 
> than a jab with a basilisk fang to entirely destroy a horcrux.  We 
> have only seen Harry (apparently) destroy one horcrux—the Riddle 
> Diary.  Dumbledore destroyed the ring, but we don't know how he 
did 
> it, and he was injured in the process.  When Harry learns how to 
> destroy a horcrux, he may realize that what he did in the Chamber 
> wasn't sufficient to destroy that part of Voldemort's soul.  Harry 
> then decides to time travel back to the time of the battle, to 
make 
> sure that the Diary soul piece is entirely destroyed.  He hides 
under 
> his invisibility cloak waiting for the diary to be stabbed so that 
he 
> can do what he needs to do.  But suddenly, as he did by the lake 
in 
> the PoA, he finds that he can't just stand there and watch.  He 
flips 
> the hat into the arms of his younger self, and then squeezes it to 
> make the sword appear.  The things that Time Traveling Harry does 
> while in the Chamber of Secrets are subtly mentioned in the 
passage 
> from CoS that I quoted above.

va32h: Hmm. Interesting. I don't agree that an older, Time-Traveling 
Harry is in the Chamber, assisting his younger self. I feel this way 
because I think it is crucial to the story that Harry, even at the 
age of 12, can battle and defeat Voldemort with nothing but his pure 
heart and loyalty to Dumbledore (which is what allows Fawkes and the 
Sorting Hat to render their aid). 

Having an older Harry come back and save his younger self would 
negate that, so I don't think it works, thematically. (In PoA, even 
though Harry saved himself, it's still 13 y.o. Harry saving 13 y.o. 
Harry). 

But I do think Harry will time travel again. Firstly, because JKR 
was suitably coy when asked if Harry would do so, and secondly, 
because of a long complicated theory I have about the series being a 
set of mirrored books, revolving around GoF, in which book 3 is the 
mirror of book 7. But that is for another day and another post!

va32h