The first-years conspiracy

[lucianam73]

No: HPFGUIDX 142041

> hg wrote (snip):
> I think Harry had the real thing, and it wasn't working anymore by 
> the time he got the memory.  
<snip>


Lucianam:
Well, the reason I don't think Harry had the Felix Felicis is 
because I think the first-years stole it and because I think the 
memory he gave Dumbledore was the wrong one. Of course he could 
still have got the wrong memory with FF, but putting the two 
arguments together I find it easier to believe he didn't really 
drink FF. 

hg also wrote (snip):
> I do think he got the right memory, freely given him by Slughorn.  
> Although the question of Time travel is really interesting (yes, I 
> did read your other post!), I don't see the connection here, only 
> because I don't agree that the memory he gives Harry is the 
modified 
> version.
> In regards, then, to your other post, you didn't tie in the RAB 
thing 
> you mentioned in this one, but I don't think it's possible for him 
to 
> be talking to Regulus because it would be decades before Regulus' 
> birth.  If you are still running with this theory, whom else might 
> you suggest he's talking to?

Oh, but I don't think memories work as real life. You can remember 
something that happened last year and mix it up with something else 
that happened last month. I mean, memories do not have dates to 
them. The Tom Riddle/pineapple memory (if it is indeed a memory used 
as a "mix-up" and not something entirely made up) happened 50 years 
ago; the foggy memory could have happened any time.

If the boy Slughorn is shouting with is R.A.B. (more likely, because 
Regulus was in his house at Hogwarts and mixing the two scenarios 
would be plausible), that happened about 20 years ago. If the boy 
is ... Percy Weasly, or Draco Malfoy, or someone else in the 
present, the foggy memory most likely happened not many months ago. 
Remember there was a clock chiming 11 o'clock in the 
Riddle/pineapple memory, just before the first 'fog break' happened? 
Well, it is a big coincidence that Harry and Dumbledore arrived at 
Slughorn's house just a little after midnight. What if Slughorn 
really had had visitors that night, around 11 o'clock?

We don't know anything about the 'art' of tempering with memories. 
Maybe you mix up two memories and try to synchronize them? Or, to 
Slughorn's bad luck, he happened to choose a memory that had a clock 
chiming 11 o'clock in it, and that sort of 'triggered' a 'leak' of 
the real memory underneath it, because in the real memory something 
did happen at 11 o'clock?

Lucianam 




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