[HPforGrownups] GoF Sphinx's riddle: Did Harry get it wrong?

[Meliss9900 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 130399

In a message dated 6/9/2005 4:21:20 PM Central Standard Time, 
tigerpatronus at yahoo.com writes:

"First think of the person who lives in disguise,
Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies,"

A Death Eater, or a "DE."

"Next tell me what's always the last thing to mend,
The middle of middle and end of the end?"

The last word on the first line: "mend" 

"And finally give me the sound often heard,
During the search for a hard-to-find word."

Harry got this part right: "-er." 


I think Spider was correct

First off the WW doesn't refer to Death Eaters as D.E.s.  That's a fandom 
thing. So I can';t see the Sphinx (or Harry) coming up with the reference as part 
of a rhyme .

Secondly the second line of this couplet makes no sense if the answer is 
actually the last word of the 1st line.

Nah I think that Harry got it right the 1st time.  Crouch Jr. might have been 
removing obstacles from Harry's path but IMO the things that Harry did 
confront, he managed to defeat on his own.

Melissa


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