[HPforGrownups] The Cave and the Tower

[Rebecca Stephens]

No: HPFGUIDX 134241



--- Tonks <tonks_op at yahoo.com> 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?

> DD says: "I don't want to, don't make me don't
> like want to stop 
> no I don't want to I don't want to let me go
> make it stop make 
> it stop no, no, no, I can't, don't make me, I don't
> want to, It's 
> all my fault, all my fault, please make it stop, I
> know I did wrong, 
> oh please make it stop and Ill never, never again 
> Don't hurt them, 
> don't hut them, please, please, it's my fault, hurt
> me instead 
> please, please, please, please, no not that, not
> that, I'll do 
> anything I want to die! I want to die! Make it
> stop, make it stop, 
> I want to die!  KILL ME!"


See, when I first started reading, I thought maybe it
was the memories of the children Tom Riddle crucioed
(well, he said he could make them "hurt" and that's
what I thought of).  

But I'm not sure the "I know I did wrong" fits there.

And the "don't hurt them . . .hurt me instead"
definitely doesn't fit in with that. (I considered
experiencing Riddle's memories (thinking he'd enjoy
reliving them by drinking the potion), but that
defintiely doesn't fit with the experiencing pain.

We can't even be sure it's all one person's
experiences (Dumbledore's or anyone else's).  

The "I don't like" and the "I'll never, never again"
definitely make me think of a child, though. 
Something horrible from Dumbledore's childhood, maybe
- the potion makes you relive your worst memory? 
Seems like there's got to be more to it than that.


Rebecca

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