Old, old problem.

Randy estesrandy at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 18 00:57:52 UTC 2006


No: HPFGUIDX 151024

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" <rdoliver30 at ...> 
wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Kathryn Jones <kjones@> 
> wrote:
> >
> 
> > 
> >     KJ writes:
> > 
> >        I think you are both right in these two paragraphs. 
> Frankly, it 
> > is canon that Dumbledore had a plan. It was a plan that made 
> Dumbledore 
> > extremely sad as he became more and more attached to Harry. He 
> even 
> > began to consider giving up his plan, regardless of the effect 
on 
> other 
> > people, because of his feelings for Harry. To my mind, this does 
> not 
> > bode well for Harry, and I find it hard to believe that Harry 
> missed the 
> > entire point of that speech. If I had been Harry, I would have 
got 
> the 
> > hell out of there.
> > 
> 
> Yes, DD definitely had a plan.  But what was it?  Was it some 
> Machiavellian thing spanning years and involving multiple 
players?  
> Or was it the more straightforward, and believable, plan to simply 
> insure the survival and education of the person that Voldemort had 
> marked as his equal (although granted DD's belief in the power of 
> the prophecy seems to wax and wane according to the needs of the 
> plot)?
> 
> Did DD regret his plan?  I don't know, it seemed to me he more 
> regretted not being honest with Harry.  What was the gleam of 
> triumph?  Was it part of DD's plan coming to fruition?  Or was it 
> simply that he realized that Voldemort, being human (or at least 
> biological) once again could now be permanently destroyed -- 
> something that could not be done to Vapor!Mort.  Or was it 
something 
> else entirely?  DD, as I recall, exclaimed in surprise along with 
> Sirius as that part of Harry's story.  Did he realize that Voldy 
had 
> just made a crucial mistake?
> 
> Who knows?  We'll find out pretty soon now.  But I suspect that 
> elaborate conspiracy theories will, as elaborate conspiracy 
theories 
> usually do, come mostly to naught.
> 
> 
> Lupinlore
>


I always wondered why the AK on Harry does not appear in Priori 
Incantatem list of spells?   

I am assuming that someone in this list has expounded on this at 
length.  Any advice would be welcome.

Randy








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