[HPforGrownups] Re: Of essence divided?

[Peggy Wilkins]

No: HPFGUIDX 154337

On 6/25/06, houyhnhnm102 <celizwh at intergate.com> wrote:
> Peggy:
> > that is why Harry is being "saved for the Dark Lord"
> > (as all the Death Eaters say, reminding each other not
> > to kill Harry).
>
> houyhnhnm:
> Could you point me to where *all* the Death Eaters say
> that Harry is being saved for the Dark Lord?

Apparently only in my mind... You are correct that only Snape says it
directly.  I just looked it up in HBP again.  His words, spoken to the
fleeing DE's, are, "Have you forgotten our orders?" but he is the only
one who makes direct reference to it.  Since he is addressing other
DE's, the logical conclusion is that Voldemort has ordered them to
"save" Harry for him.

> During the flight of the Prince I don't remember any of
> the DEs saying anything about saving Harry for the Dark
> Lord. Snape said it, but to take what he said at face
> value requires the assumption that he is a loyal DE.

I don't think his "have you forgotten our orders" can be taken one way
or the other, as far as his being a loyal DE or DDM!Snape... we know
only that they have been given that order.

Peggy W, who will try to remember to check her references next time so
as not to make misleading statements... especially as I found another
error I made in attributing "risky" to Dumbledore when he really said
"inadvisable"... Ah, my faulty memory, it makes things up as it goes
along!

-- 
Peggy Wilkins
enlil65 at gmail.com