Being Good and Evil /Hermione is Voldemort in making?

houyhnhnm102 celizwh at intergate.com
Fri Jul 7 21:02:24 UTC 2006


No: HPFGUIDX 155052

random832: 

> It could well be that it is a widely known custom that 
> anything of the form "sheet of parchment with the dotted 
> line at the bottom to sign" is also going to be a magical 
> contract, and it might be less known that putting your 
> name on a slip of paper/parchment that you then put in 
> a flaming goblet would also be, thus the need for explanation.

houyhnhnm:

That's possible.  Perhaps the Goblet of Fire was not a 
good example to use.  I am intrigued by the idea that 
any signature in the WW has magical consequences.  Maybe
that's why we don't see any divorces. "'Til death do us 
part" is not only literally interpreted, it is magically 
enforced.  Cheat on your mate and you end up the recipient 
of a nasty hex.  Abandon your spouse and you die.  (Makes 
me wonder, if Madam Zabini is guilty as charged by rumour, 
how she pulled it off.)

But, as appealing as that possibility is, I see no evidence 
for it in canon, hence no reason to expect Marietta to have 
known what she was setting herself up for.  That was my point.







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