Yo-Yo, Thimble, Mouth-organ

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 152764

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sistermagpie" <belviso at ...> 
wrote:
>
> It's hard to explain exactly why objects have a meaning to you if 
> you're this type of person but yes, they definitely do.  (snip) 
But basically the objects are totems for memory.  You 
> don't want them because they mean something to someone else but 
> because they mean something to you, something you may or may not 
be able to explain.  Magpies traditionally are thought to like 
things that are "shiny" (all corvids do) but for people "shiny" can 
be sort of a metaphor for some kind of inner attractive shine.  It 
doesn't seem like Tom gets pleasure out of playing with the yo-yo or 
the mouth organ.  Usually with this sort of thing the item brings 
> pleasure just in itself.  It's to be taken out when you want to 
look at it, touch it and "feel" whatever it means, be it a memory or 
a symbol of something that's connected to yourself.  (Snip> 
> My guess is he might even feel more like the objects are his, not 
theirs, because they "call" to him in some way that makes them more 
than a toy or a harmonica. 


Tonks:
Yes, yes. This is what I am getting at. What do they mean to him? We 
need to get inside his mind. We need to know how he thinks, 
especially when he was a child. I think that DD wants Harry to do 
this.. to understand the enemy. Know how he thinks so you can plan 
how to outsmart him. 

Come on all you detectives.. what was Tom thinking? Why are those 
objects important? How do they tie into the Horcruxes that he uses? 
Does he have any of them now? Has he collected anything else as an 
adult?  Does Slughorn (who collects people) have anything to teach 
us about hording behaviors that we can use when trying to understand 
LV?

Tonks_op