Dumbledore's Wayward Conjectures

[lucinda428]

No: HPFGUIDX 133824

I apologise: I can't find the exact quote again, but I remember when 
reading it that Dumbledore stressed to Harry at one point that, as 
large of brain as he is, he can make equally large mistakes.  He 
points to the difference between the actual memories and the 
conjectures he's making about them.

IMO this is Rowling telling us that at least one of his critical 
conjectures is wrong.  It might be useful to speculate on which one.

Can I kick off and suggest that Voldemort didn't go to Godric's 
Hollow to kill Harry, but to make him a Horcrux?  (He's very 
arrogant: if the baby has the power to vanquish him, he might decide 
to harness rather than destroy him.  Remember he hasn't heard that 
neither can live while the other survives.) 

That's why Lily was, in his opinion, being "a silly girl" to give 
her life to protect him.  James's was the necessary death: Harry was 
only ever to be a Horcrux spell.  It has been pointed out that this 
spell did not emerge from Voldemort's wand in GOF - maybe he used 
James's (or Lily's) wand.  Maybe to make a Horcrux you have to use 
the wand of the person you killed?

Whether you agree with that or not, the key point I'd like to 
highlight for debate is, at least one of Dumbledore's assumptions is 
wrong: which one?


lucinda428