The Sting: Lucius sent Bella (was:Re: LV: Where'd He Go and How did Frank...)!

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 151075


> Neri:
> But we did get Bella out of Azkaban, we did get her torturing Neville,
> we did get to see Neville in the hospital with his poor mother, and we
> did see him becoming something of a fighter, all suggesting buildup
> towards a battle between Bella and Neville in Book 7. And after HBP we
> also get these darned horthingies all over the place. Blame it on JKR,
> but as we are approaching the last installation of the series, it
> looks like big ESEs are Out and Horcruxes are In.

Pippin:
I very much agree that Neville is being developed as the nemesis
for Bella. That's one reason I firmly believe that she didn't kill Sirius.
The lack of emotional relationship between Neville and Sirius would
make Neville as the nemesis of Sirius's killer unsatisfying. 

But the nemesis of the ESE! character will surely be Harry, and it 
would sharpen Harry's sense of betrayal to think that Neville and
his parents were betrayed as well.

As for horcruxes being in and ESE!'s out, ESE!'s are always out. The
whole point of  "ever so evil" characters is that they seem to be
peripheral right up to the moment in the ending chapters when they 
are finally revealed.

As HBP and HP7 are supposed to be two parts of the same book,
I suspect the horcrux hunt will proceed as it did in HBP, with Harry
delving into the past every few chapters while otherwise
attempting to discover/thwart whatever nefarious plan Voldemort 
has in motion. Meanwhile, the ESE! character, if there is one, will
turn up at crucial moments without actually appearing to be
involved. 

Of course there won't be a lot of space for the ESE! to expound
on his motives and purpose, but there never is. Fortunately the ESE!'s
motives are always and conveniently generic. We don't need to hear
about Quirrell's lust for power, because we've learned all about Harry's.
We don't need to know about Ginny's loneliness, or the rift
between Scabbers and his friends, or Crouch Jr's desire for a
surrogate father because all these things are thoroughly explored
through Harry.

JKR won't have a lot of time to explain what the ESE! character was
thinking, but isn't it interesting that Harry now has such outrage 
over his losses that many long to see him forsake justice and take 
revenge? And he has multiple grievances against the Ministry as
well.


> 
> > > Neri:
> > > I'm not sure what is your theory regarding Bella's involvement with
> > > the locket Horcrux, but her words in Spinner's End don't seem to fit.
> > 
> > Carol again:
> > That's easily remedied. Here's a link to the post:
> > 
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/145831
> > 
> > Skip to the paragraph following the lead-in, "Here's an alternative
> > scenario for people to shoot down."
> > 
> 
> Neri:
> In your theory above, Bella plays a small part by putting the locket
> in the cave, and maybe killing Regulus later. This is quite possible,
> of course, but as I wrote, it would make Bella's slip of tongue in
> Spinner's End useless as a clue (or even just as a good red herring)
> to the location of a Horcrux. We already know that RAB stole the
> locket, and it's probably the locket last seen in 12GP by OotP. So
> even if it was Bella who put it in the cave in the first place, this
> is pretty much immaterial now. For Bella's slip of tongue to be a real
> clue it should be relevant for the current location of the Horcrux
> she's talking about. 

Pippin:
We need a way for a minor DE such as Regulus to learn a secret as
closely guarded as the location of a horcrux. If not Bella, then JKR
would have to invent some other means for him to have found out.

Pippin