[HPforGrownups] Problems at the end of GOF

[Tammy Rizzo]

No: HPFGUIDX 124425

> Richard Jones:
> When I was rereading GOF last weekend, I had some questions about the 
> plot points:

Tammy Rizzo:
Well, let's see if maybe we can get some answers to these questions for you, shall we then?

> Richard Jones:
> (1) How did the "shades" of Cedric and Frank Bryce and Lily and James 
> know all they knew? How did the shades know what was going on or 
> about the golden thread connection or what to do? How did they know 
> there was a portkey there? What goes on inside the wands?

Tammy Rizzo:
Well, first off, they weren't 'shades', they were more like 'echoes', an image or copy, if you 
will, of the life-force stolen from them when they were AK'd.  At least, that's how I see them.  
As a Xerox (TM) of the original people, they'd have much the same personality and 
knowledge as their originals, perhaps muddied a bit by being stored in the wand for so long, 
plus they'd have been able to absorb some information about what was going on around 
them, as, say, people in a stopped bus can see what's happening outside th bus, even if 
they can't leave the bus.  At least, that's my take on the echoes of LV's AK victims.  Does 
that help?  And if that doesn't help, then here's my catch-all, last-resort answer:  It's *magic*, 
ooooooh!  8-)  Not stage-magic like my dad used to do when he was younger, but *REAL* 
magic, not necessarily obligated to follow the laws of physics or of logic as we know them.

> Richard Jones:
> (2) Inside the maze, Harry had his wand point north, but how did that 
> help him find the trophy? If he was east or west of the trophy, it 
> would just lead him right past it. It wouldn't be any help except at 
> the very entrance.

Tammy Rizzo:
Assuming you were lost in the forest, wouldn't it be nice and handy to have a compass so at 
least you'd know which direction you were facing?  That's what Harry's wand did for him, 
and all it did for him, was act as a compass, to help him get his bearings.  However, think 
back to just how much time Harry has spent over the Quidditch pitch, on his broom, 
overhead . . . I'm sure that, even with a hedgemaze tossed up right in the middle of it all, 
he'd still have some sort of feel for where he was on the pitch itself, just from all that time in 
the three years past, in practice and games.  And if he could only know which direction he 
was facing, he could probably suss out which side of the centerline he was on, at least.  Or 
take a good guess at the VERY least.

> Richard Jones:
> And by the way, why didn't Harry or Ron or some Gryffindor fly above 
> the hedge earlier and make a map of the maze for Harry? It was just 
> a normally growing maze and there is no mention that DD had enchanted 
> it.

Tammy Rizzo:
Well, now, Gryffs are supposed to be noble and chivalrous, right?  I mean, basically.  
Making a map of a maze would be cheating, not a very chivalrous thing to do.

> Richard Jones:
> (3) And how did LV have the wand he killed James and Lily with? At 
> Godric's Hollow, he turned into vapor so he couldn't carry it. So it 
> must have just fallen down and maybe picked up by someone else at 
> Godric's Hollow, but the Death Eaters didn't know he was alive or 
> where he was and if a member of the Ministry got it they would 
> probably destroy it or keep it well protected (and even if Lucius 
> Malfoy stole it from the Ministry how would he get it to LV since he 
> didn't know LV was alive, let alone where he was?). LV spent 13 
> years as vapor and a snake and like that, and so he couldn't carry it 
> in any of those states. Wormtail was a rat and couldn't carry it. 
> LV had to have Wormtail use it in graveyard against Cedric because he 
> couldn't. So how did he come to have his wand in the graveyard?

Tammy Rizzo:
Well, this wand question has come up over and over and over again, and I have a very 
simple explanation for it (that others have also brought up over and over and over again).  
Here it is again.  First off, there had to have been someone else with LV at the Potters that 
fateful night.  I believe Wormtail lead LV to the place, then hung around to watch, and when 
everything went *BANG*, he picked up LV's wand and ran away like the snivelling rat he is.  
So, that's how Voldy's wand was 'rescued'.  As for how could a rat carry it . . . well, we've 
seen Sirius transform from his human form to his dog form and back again, and he wasn't 
naked when he regained his human form -- his clothes, and assumingly, all the stuff within 
his pockets, follow him into his Animagus form.  Same with McG, at the Dursleys.  She went 
from cat to *fully dressed* witch (or we'd have heard SOMETHING about her being 
undressed, I'm sure).  So, when Pettigrew transformed into a rat and escaped down into the 
sewers in the middle of London, then everything in his pockets went with him, including LV's 
wand.  Simple.

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Tammy Rizzo
ms-tamany at rcn.com

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