Who's Side Are They On?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 151641

Kim wrote:
> If I may be so bold as to snip a bit here and there, and remove this
quote of Geoff's email from the "Dumbledore Dead?" thread to add it to
another, doesn't this seem to offer another clue that Ollivander might
loyal to Dumbledore?  The lines are clearly drawn... you're either
loyal to Dumbledore or to Voldemort (the main characters, that is).
> <snip>
> I think Ollivander is on DD's side though I can't think of where he
might be now that he's missing.  I loved the idea that the fox in
Spinner's End is significant.  It has to have been a clue to more than
the temperment of the ladies walking past it.  Still, I hope it isn't
Ollivander who's now laying dead in a gutter from a careless spell cast.

Carol responds:
I agree that Ollivander is on DD's side, primarily because he informed
DD of the sale of both wands with a Fawkes feather core and because he
seems to be keeping a close eye on Harry in the only two scenes where
they appear together. As I've said before, I'm certain that he's a
Legilimens and IMO he's one of DD's extensive network of spies (though
perhaps not a member of the OoP).

I doubt very much that he's the fox. There would be no reason for him
to be in Spinner's End watching out for Snape, and he seems to have
already gone missing, along with Florian Fortescue, before the events
of that chapter. Moreover, we have no evidence that he's an Animagus,
and surely JKR would have dropped a hint somewhere if that were the
case. I think the incident with the fox (which reminds me of a luckier
fox in "Fellowship of the Rings"!) simply illustrates that Bellatrix
(no "lady," IMO!) is trigger happy and that an Animagus killed in
animal form would revert to human form in death. ("Just a fox,"
Bellatrix mutters when it remains a fox. "I thought perhaps an
Auror--" HBP Am. ed. 20.)

I think that if Ollivander were dead, his body would have been found
in HBP. Most likely he's in hiding, if only because he's an integral
part of the WW and JKR needs him to stay alive to keep her world
functioning. Also I expect that he'll aid Harry in some way in Book 7.
(Too bad he seems to be childless. Another pureblood family heading
for extinction? Maybe Luna Lovegood, who has similar eyes, is his
grandchild and future successor.)

Carol, feeling sorry for the new "ickle firsties" who won't have
Ollivander-made wands