Disappearances and Nagini

[Ken Hutchinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 158529

> Carol:
>
> As we know, Dumbledore mistakenly states in HBP that Voldemort used
> Nagini to kill Frank Bryce (unfortunately, Harry never remembers the
> dream in which he sees LV AK Frank), but possibly DD isn't entirely
> mistaken. In GoF he states that Frank Bryce, like Bertha Jorkins,
> *disappeared.* IOW, his body was never found. Since Voldemort planned
> to feed first Wormtail (who is reprieved from death by a message from
> Crouch!Moody stating that Crouch Sr. is dead) and then Harry (who
> escapes from the graveyard using the cup portkey) to Nagini after
> killing them, it seems likely to me that Voldemort fed both Bertha
> Jorkins and Frank Bryce to Nagini after killing them, partly to reward
> or appease Nagini and partly to dispose of the evidence. 

Ken

My how macabre, I love it! Harry wouldn't even have to remember the
dream, Frank's "echo" accuses LV of killing him in the graveyard
scene. Did Harry mention that detail to DD in the text? Was his report
to DD about those events summarized in the text in a way that could
have included this detail? I still wonder if that "mistake" on DD's
part wasn't an intentional red flag he wanted to plant in Harry's
subconscious.

I've always wondered if LV was literally threatening to feed Peter and
Harry to Nagini or if this was meant to unnerve them with an image
that was horrific, even if impossible. I'm never sure just how big
Nagini is supposed to be. If Peter had watched Nagini eat Frank's body
he would have taken the threat quite seriously, as he seems to do. In
Peter's case LV might even have been threatening to feed Peter alive
to the snake!!

It's possible too that in his weakened state BabyMort could not kill
Frank, and just stunned him even though he used an AK. As far as
Frank's echo would known LV did kill him but that would mean that DD
was literally true, it was Nagini who actually killed him. An even
better (from LV's point of view) for Peter to have in mind when LV
threatens to feed him to Nagini. If that is true LV must have told
Snape quite a bit about his fall and return when they finally met,
otherwise how could DD know this?

Ken