Two replies - Dumbledores hand and Arnold the Pygmy Puff

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 139711

- Kizor:
I don't have enough data to present much evidence one way or the
other, so I'm going to keep this short.

DD's destruction of the ring Horcrux was apparently difficult,
dangerous and required extreme measures. Horcruxes contain parts of
soul, the living-ness of which is in question. The ring that cost
Dumbledore his hand remained intact.

I therefore suggest that DD committed the deed by sticking the ring
through the veil - while holding it in his hand, which from that point
forth looked dead and didn't heal at all.

Discuss.


Valky:
Gosh what a brilliant theory Kizor, I like it quite a lot actually
though I would probably be more enthusiastic about it if I hadn't just
read and reread and rereread the scene where Sirius falls into the
veil and become convinced that touching it in any way causes it to
drag you in slowly and inescapably. Though it's still workable if
Dumbledore was extremely cautious to touch the ring and only the ring
to the veil, whereupon his hand deadened from the rush of wind that
flies from the veil after it had swallowed up Voldemorts soul piece.


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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "rt11guru" <ken.fruit at g...> wrote:
> Rereading HBP, I noticed the following in the account of the party
> after the quidditch match:
>
> [Harry] walked straight into Ginny, Arnold the Pygmy Puff riding on
> her shoulder and Crookshanks mewing hopefully at her heels.
> ...
> [Ginny] walked off to help herself to more butterbeer. Crookshants
> trotted after her, his yellow eyes fixed upon Arnold.
>
> So is this the cat part of Crookshanks viewing Arthur as a furry
> little snack, or is the kneazle part keeping a close eye on another
> dangerous beastie?
>

Allie:

I also made a mental note of that one. I'm having a hard time finding
something that could be evil about a miniature Puffskein ("covered in
soft, custard-coloured fur, it is a docile creature" - FB), humming
and cooing and eating snot and spiders. And I don't think JKR would
make *another* Weasley pet an animagus. (Been there, done that.)
Obviously nothing played out in HBP, but maybe in Harry Potter and the
Next Grand Adventure...

Valky:
Good catch both of you. I'm reminded of the comment Ron made about
Harry's Sneakoscope going off all through dinner. Ron was saying that
it was detecting something that the Twins had done to Percy, later we
are surprised to discover that Pettigrew was sending it off all year.
At the moment, I'm thinking that since it comes from Fred and Georges
store it definitely is *not* what it first appears, the Pygmy puffs
might not be miniature puffskeins at all but instead another of one of
the twins awful pranks, some hideous rare creature transfigured into a
puff but due to revert to its alter form when you least expect it.
Basically, this time, I think, it *is* the Twins setting off the
Sneakoscope. :D