TBAY assortment (not as nice as Lindt)

[dungrollin]

No: HPFGUIDX 132744

With huge apologies for the delay in responding, but it's honestly 
not my fault, we had exploding transformers and fires and allsorts.  
But the internet is on again (and in colour too!)


Neri, having been repeatedly told that the CROUCHING TIGER is 
fragile, is now jumping up and down on it with unconcealed glee. 
Dungrollin runs around on deck desperately trying to staple it back 
together as crack after crevice reveals the choppy waters below...

Neri:
Erm
, if Junior is dead, Senior was memory-harmed and now is also
dead, the Longbottoms will never recover, and Bella and DD had never
suspected, then how would Harry and us ever learn about the nice 
story above?

Dung:
In this scenario Dumbledore was the one who memory charmed Crouch 
and the Longbottoms, at the trial, Bella underlines the fact that 
they were trying to find out where Voldemort was.  Dumbledore 
doesn't yet know about the bubblegum wrappers, but he may well be 
able to put two and two together.  In other words, I don't know.  

If I'm not sunk utterly on Saturday, I'll have a longer think about 
it.

> Dungrollin, previously:
> By the way, Neri, I've been meaning to ask (and sorry for crossing
> TBAYs), but how is the VASSAL coping with "In choosing which boy to
> murder, he was also (without realising it) choosing which boy to
> anoint as the Chosen One - to give him tools no other wizard
> possessed - the scar and the ability it conferred, a magical window
> into Voldemort's mind?" (JKR's most recent FAQ answer.)

Neri:
I truly don't see why the above constitutes any problem for VASSAL.
Could you elaborate?

Dungrollin is sulking amongst the rapidly disintegrating mess that 
is the CROUCHING TIGER, and petulantly aims a firecracker at the 
undefended VASSAL in the dock:

Have I misremembered it?  I thought the VASSAL was originally Mind-
Linked!Snape, that Snape has been spying on Voldy through a mind 
link that they share, which Voldy thought he'd got rid of, but is 
actually permanent.  However, JKR says that no other wizard (aside 
from Harry) has a magical window into Voldemort's mind.  Or was 
there an addendum that I've forgotten about? Or did it morph away 
from that? Or did I completely misunderstand the whole thing?

Dung begins to mumble.

Unbeknownst to her, Debbie had pulled alongside in the Memory Charm 
paddleboat, and had been examining the overall design and the 
singular can(n)on on the CROUCHING TIGER.

"Why, yes, Dungrollin! We're all just speculating our way through
the gaping holes in the Longbottom story, and yours is as plausible
as any. JKR has certainly been telegraphing to us that it's an
important bit of backstory."

> To be honest, the only bit I'm sure of is that Crouch Junior and
> Bella and co tortured their way through a memory charm, which had
> been placed on Frank and Alice. The rest is all trying to make
> sense of it.

"How about if I give you an extra bit of canon?" Debbie tossed a can
(n)on onto the deck. 

Dung admired the can(n)on, and looked around at Debbie, who was 
slightly blurred around the edges (due to the firewhisky). "Thank 
you Debbie.  Thank you thank you thank you."  

"A toast to Memory Charm theories!"

Dung slung the nearly empty bottle of firewhisky in the general 
direction of the toast, and collapsed in a heap in the corner, 
singing quietly "We will all go together when we go..."