Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: CHAPDISC: HBP20, Lord Voldemort’s Request

[Jordan Abel]

No: HPFGUIDX 158171

akh:
> >   13) Are we to presume that the twitch Harry saw in the Pensieve
> memory is Voldemort casting the DADA teacher curse?  What else might
> he have been doing?
>
> zgirnius:
> That's what I always assumed.

Random832:
There's a brilliant theory, though, from Red Hen Publications, that
what he was really doing was a Confundus or something similar on the
sorting hat, in order to get it to sort more of the kind of people
he'd like as followers into Slytherin [get them all in one place for
recruitment, after a generation or so Slytherin has a bad reputation
so anyone sorted into there thinks he/she has nowhere else to turn but
to become a DE], and the curse was a bit of misdirection later on, to
make us (and DD) think that was what he was doing

A lot of people like to think that the hat is immune to that sort of
thing, immune to anything, after all, it's an artifact of the
founders, therefore a mere confundus/occlumency/etc wouldn't have any
effect on it, it's above that - but that's just not canon. Not even,
IIRC, it having been created by the founders (but correct me if I'm
wrong)

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Random832