of Caves and Tarot cards

[barbara_mbowen]

No: HPFGUIDX 135452

Merrylinks wrote:

<My read on DD's begging and pleading in the cave is that it's 
not for
himself, but for the safety of the students. If you are right, if the
potion magnifies a person's greatest fears and guilts, sort of like
an extreme dementor attack, then DD's constant pleading is 
consistent with that.>

This is something I've been wondering about:  what was in that 
potion DD had to drink.  I hadn't considered it might still be 
Voldemort's potion, but assumed it was left there by RAB, full of 
his own guilt at what he had been forced to do as a Death Eater, 
and/or as a trick to force Voldemort to experience guilt.  So, 
interesting question here.  It's either Voldemort's potion to 
incapacitate anyone threatening a 
piece of his "soul", or a potion placed there by  Regulus Black .   
And if it's still Voldemort's original potion, Regulus would have 
had to drink it before stealing the locket.  Could he have done 
that without help?  If he had help, who was it? 

Marmelade's Mom, popping out of lukerdom to brag that she had 
predicted the return of Regulus Black two years ago...although in 
the person of Stubby Boardman, and as a joke, not a serious, 
totally unsuspected good guy.   Isn't Jo great?