How important is the right sluggish memory?

[lucianam73]

No: HPFGUIDX 142314

Valky:
> The battle scenes in the D.O.M. are scattered with notes of voices 
and
> footsteps from ambiguous sources. When Luna relates the battle in 
the
> room of planets she tells that she accidentally broke Ginny's 
ankle on
> what appears to be her first spell, and Ron was hit with something
> that made him 'go all funny'. Somehow, all three survived and 
escaped
> four DE's attacking them but Luna was the only one capable of
> fighting, this is a suspicious set of circumstances, lending to a
> theory that they may have had help from an undisclosed source. 

[snip] 
> I am guessing that the trio trace the locket to Sirius and it 
leads to
> them arriving at the D.O.M on that night. The prescence of the 
trio in
> the D.O.M working behind the scenes to protect the D.A. would 
explain
> some gaps in the account of the battle.
> 

Lucianam: 

This is so intriguing I had to come back to this thread! I've been 
re-reading the D.O.M. battle again and it's amazing, really amazing 
how the craziest possibilities spring to mind, if you read the 
sequence of actions very carefully.

I say crazy possibilities because, well, I saw possible evidence for 
Hermione and/or Tonks being killed, for example!

And the annoying thing is you *can* pull off these crazy theories 
because stuff like Time-Travelling and Metamorpgamagus-izing (wow) 
and Polyjuice Potion and whatnot work as loopholes. You can get 
practically get away with murder!

For example:
In message #142255 I went on about how Tonks could have been killed 
by a 'jet of green light' in the Death Room. And well, she could 
have! How would one wriggle out of that tight hole, seeing that 
Tonks has been seen walking and talking since? See loopholes above. 
I personally favor the Metamorphamagus option, as a homage to Tonks.

Hermione could have died in the D.O.M. battle; when 
Harry and Neville, carrying her, reach the circular room, her 'fiery 
crosses' have faded. Isn'it a bit creepy? It reminded me of Harry's 
Body-Bind being lifted (in HBP) when Dumbeledore was AK'ed. How 
crazy would it be, just throw TT in and Hermione-from-the-future 
could die, with all those curse flying around... 

Basically if the TT scenario really takes us back to D.O.M., I 
wouldn't bet money on ANYTHING being impossible. The possibilities 
are infinite!!

Lucianam, now really afraid to ever re-read the D.O.M battle scene 
again!