Old, old problem.
Randy
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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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