The Cave and the Tower

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 134200

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at y...> wrote:
> Calling all detectives.. all fellow Aurors. There are clues, but I 
> am very confused about them. I am very confused about a number of 
> things.
> 
> 1. the scene in the cave. DD drinks the liquid and starts_ what??  
> Remembering something that is from his life, or channeling a 
memory 
> of someone else's??  And what memory is it?
<snip>
> Any ideas as to what this is really all about??  Is he drinking
> the liquid out of a pensive and someone's memory is in it??
>  Who's?  And also if Regulas Black got the locket first and put
> this one in it's place, he had to drink the liquid, right?  How is
> it that the basin is full of liquid again? 


Jen: Most people feel this was someone else's memory. I'm not sure 
yet. It reminded me a bit of a Dementor moment, compunded thousands 
of times. Like DD was remembering every bad moment in his life, 
magnified. Particularly any errors he made that later lead to a 
person's death or torture. 

Then JKR said in the interview part two, that if we read closely we 
can guess DD's boggart. Well again I was reminded of the cave scene--
is his greatest fear making mistakes that lead to other people's 
pain? 

I wish I'd paid attention in Potions class :-(. Surely someone has 
already gone through ever potion we were ever introduced to and 
determined if its one Snape talked about in class and/or gave as a 
homework assignment? If not, I'm banking on something to do with the 
Dementors. Or boggarts. Or *something* like that.

Jen, obviously not Auror material.