Winky/Bellatrix parallel?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 146097

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
>
> Okay, I admit this sounds crazy, but I'm rereading GoF and I was
> struck by the following incomplete remark from the
> butterbeer-saturated Winky:
> 
> "Master is--*hic*--trusting Winky with--*hic*--the most important--
> *hic*--the most secret--" (Am. ed. 537).
> 
> Compare Bellatrix's unfinished remark to Snape in "Spinner's End"
> regarding the man, er, whatever he is, that she considers to be *her*
> master:
> 
> "The Dark Lord has, in the past, entrusted me with his most
> precious--" (HBP Am. ed. 29).
> 
<snip>

> Maybe I'm just obsessed with "Spinner's End," but the similarity of
> the wording struck me as interesting. Assuming that the wording is
> deliberately parallel, maybe the point is only the fanatical devotion
> of a female servant to a merciless and tyrannical master who has more
> or less discarded her (fired her, in Winky's case; stopped trusting
> her in Bellatrix's). But neither Bellatrix nor Winky finishes the
> sentence. We discover near the end of GoF what Winky's secret duty
> was. I'm almost certain that we'll find out Bellatrix's in Book 7
> (I've already suggested that it might be hiding the locket Horcrux.)
> 
> Does anyone besides me think there might be a deliberate parallel here
> like the "hatred and revulsion" parallel between Snape and Harry in
> HBP

Pippin:
Yes, I think you're on to something. The sense of intimacy created
by shared secrets seems to be confused with love. There's also
a hint of this between Myrtle and Draco. 

Maybe I'm just obsessed with EverSoEvil!Lupin, but this parallel
would help my theory that Sirius was killed because his knowledge of the
prophecy, revealed when he shouted to Harry in the DoM,  had come 
from a traitor in the Order rather than from  Dumbledore. Dumbledore
is  adamant that he and he alone could have told Harry that there was
no need for him to go to the Department of Mysteries, which strongly
suggests that Sirius was not supposed to know anything specific.

I'd been wondering why a traitor would tell Sirius in the first place. 
Sharing a secret about Harry might have been a way for the traitor
to assure himself that any doubts Sirius might have would be quieted.

Pippin
who thinks JKR tipped her hat to the fans of so-called "weird pairings" 
when she had Harry think that Draco and Myrtle were an "unlikely coupling"