Draught of Living Death

[honeykissed246]

No: HPFGUIDX 153332

Bec:
"snip"

"Harry knew, instinctively, the only way left to get
water, because Voldemort had planned it so ... He flung himself over
to the edge of the rock and plunged the goblet into the lake, 
bringing it up full to the brim of icy water that did not 
vanish. "Sir - here!" Harry yelled, and lunging forward, he tipped 
the water clumsily over Dumbledores face. "
"snip"

*See I wonder what would have happened if Dumbledore would 
have "drank" the water instead of having it just spilled in his face.


Dumbledore does say that he believed that Voldemort
would have wanted to keep the drinker alive for a bit to find out 
why he was there - so,curiousity is killing me here as to how that 
would have happened. Like, for example, Harry thought he was going 
to be pulled into and under the lake to lay with the dead Inferi.  
If that's what Voldemort intended, how's he going to question 
anybody? They'd kind of be dead and drowned, wouldn't they?

Honeykissed:

Bec, you are right.  I was wondering why the Inferi was trying to 
pull Harry into the lake to drown him.  But I did notice one
thing, they were only trying to drown Harry.  There was no mention 
that the Inferi was trying to drown Dumbledore.  This is purely 
speculation, but maybe they somehow knew not to drown Dumbledore 
since he was the one that consumed the potion and took the locket.  I
wonder if Harry had not been there, if the lake would have been 
distrubed. Since the potion alone may have knocked the person 
consuming it unconscious.  I would think Dumbledore would not be in 
a position to get water himself if he had to drink the potion alone 
(which we know he would not have been able to do). dumbledore has 
already stated that the job required "two people".

To me, this is like the scene in GOF when Voldemort ordered Peter 
to "kill the spare".  Which lead to Cedric's death. Harry was
technically a "spare" in this scene.  JKR has defintely woven this 
one really, really well.  I can't wait for the 7th book to come out 
to see how close we are in "guessing" what went on in that lake.

Honeykissed