[HPforGrownups] Re: DRIBBLE SHADOWS addendum

[Mira]

No: HPFGUIDX 129149

Spilling Margaritas all over her sarong, in a pitiful
attempt to ape the refined lifestyle of TBAY
inhabitants, newbie Mira rushes to say:

First of all, the DRIBBLE SHADOWS ship seems very
alluring to me. It connects nicely and credibly a few
loose ends: the 12 uses of dragon blood, the missing
24 hours, Harry's vulnerability located in his eyes.

Now, a simple explanation for Harry's vulnerable point
might be that his vision is dependent on glasses;
should they be shattered, he would be almost helpless
in front of a powerful enemy (unless he would find
somewhere else inside him the power to see).

However, I find strange that, as far as I remember,
every time people comment on Harry's eyes, they never
say: "Your eyes look remarkably like your mother's",
but "You have your mother's eyes," Is this sentence
perhaps meant to be taken less figuratively? If there
are occurences in the book where the similarity is
formulated in a different way, I would be grateful to
anybody who points them out.

In the dreams he had while still living with the
Dursleys, Harry never remembers the swishing sound,
like some force moving through the air, that AK makes
when demonstrated by the false Mad-Eye. Only a
_blinding_ flash of _green_ _light_ and a burning pain
in his forehead. Is it a coincidence that his eyes are
green, same as the flash of light (or, we could say,
the light of his eyes is green)? Could it be that
Lily's eyes were somehow transferred on Harry,
automatically or through a subsequent operation? Does
the scar originates from the curse or perhaps from the
operation? Was Harry blinded by the curse, perhaps?

One more thing I don't understand is: did Voldemort
kill Lily first then sent a second curse that
rebounded off Harry? Or did he aim at Harry, and Lily
threw herself in the way of the curse? After the
exchanges he hears when affected by Dementors, Harry
remembers Voldemort's laughter and a woman's scream.
We know AK kills instantly, when did Lily have time to
scream and why? The second scenario, where Lily threw
herself in front of Harry to protect him and the curse
rebounded off Lily, not off Harry, explains perfectly
why the missing AK didn't come out of Voldemort's wand
when it was connected with Harry's in GoF. But if the
curse rebounded off Lily, where did the scar come
from? Could it be that the force of the spell somehow
threw Lily's eyes in her son's face, or, less
graphically, that Lily transfered her light to Harry,
and it was this light, not the curse, that he dreams
of? When Cedric is killed, Harry's eyes sting from the
curse passing close to him. Could it be that his eyes
were deteriorated already in the night at GH? Is this
perhaps why he's wearing glasses? Are the eyes his or
Lily's? Were Lily's eyes magical in any sense, perhaps
similar to Mad Eye Moody's, except they had the power
to see through the soul of people and not through
substance as such? What happened with Lily's and
James' bodies anyway? AK should have left them intact,
and we never hear anything about them. Were they left
for muggles to bury? Did Hagrid need the motorbike to
transport only Harry, or a heavier load?

About the missing 24 hours, I'd like to point out an
interesting discussion we had on HPANA. Somebody asked
why did the owner of the Leaky Cauldron greet Harry
with 'Welcome back' I took it to mean 'Welcome back to
the wizarding world', but could it have meant that
Harry had been at the LC before? Was perhaps there the
place where Hagrid took him to wait until night, when
muggles would be asleep and he could meet Dumbledore
in Privet Drive without anybody noticing? However,
Hagrid says that Harry fell asleep over Bristol (if I
am not mistaken); I always thought the Dursleys live
close to London, and Vernon commutes to London for
work. Was this a wrong assumption? Why would somebody
pass over Bristol in the way from London to London (or
from Hogwarts to London for that matter)? Where
exactly is GH? Far in space or perhaps in space and
also in time?

Just a few (a lot of, unfortunately) thoughts, not a
theory as such yet, but I would be very glad if
somebody took my posting seriously and commented on
it.

Thanks for reading and sorry for the length,
Mira

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