SPOILER - Final Predictions - 5 - Manxmouse Theory

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No: HPFGUIDX 171819

MANXMOUSE THEORY -- Harry Potter was not a living 
being - he was created by Dumbledore -- the Dark Lord
was convinced that Harry was immortal by being fed
the Elixir of Life and camt to Godrics Hollow not 
to kill Harry but to use a switching spell on him to 
gain that immortality {even briefly}  -- when 
Voldemort used the switching spell it backfired and
destroyed his own body and gave Harry life ....
thus The Boy Who Lived.


I guarantee that, whether you buy into the theory
presented in this post or not, your perception of
Harry Potter will be inalterably changed after you read
what follows.......

The logic herein is based on canon and one of the
books on JKR's bookshelf. This little book is not
one that most people would feel is relevant to the
Potterverse, and I was not too convinced by either
the title or the cover.........until I started
reading it.

The book in question has been long out of print,
but I managed to find an old well-read hardcover
copy in the Main Library in Palm Beach County,
Florida. When I first looked at

MANXMOUSE (the mouse who knew no fear)
by Paul Gallico,

I thought it would just be another interesting
children's book.
The first chapter. however, blew me away....
And it wasn't even the main part of the story!

The theory is quite simple to state, but quite
difficult to believe, or even take seriously.
But here goes.....


HARRY!MANX!POTTER

Dumbledore is an alchemist and transfiguration
expert who has used deep magic to created Harry
Potter in the extraordinary image of his father
but with his mother's eyes.....

James and Lily Potter are husband and wife but
James is NOT Harry's TRUE blood father.

In other words, Harry was NOT born as a living
human being. Harry was a creation, a Golem,
a Pinocchio, who was fashioned by Dumbledore as
a weapon against Voldemort.

When Voldemort was lured by the prophecy to attack
Harry, his spell split his essence, giving Harry
new [or perhaps "more"} life.

Harry was sent to live with muggles not for his
protection, but to keep his true nature away from
the prying and meddling of wizards until he was
ready.

But, like Gepetto before him, Dumbledore fell
in love with his creation, and that was the flaw
in his plan.

Referring to the Manxmouse book ....


CHAPTER ONE - THE STORY OF THE TIDDLY MOUSE-MAKER

"There was once rather an extraordinary old ceramist
who lived in the village of Buntingdowndale in the
heart of England. Ceramics is the art of making pottery
into tiles, or dishes, or small glazed figures.
<......> ...this [potter] made nothing but the most
lifelike and enchanting littler ceramic mice from
morning until night.
<......> ... but everytime he set about his work, he
was hoping that the next one would result in the
absolutely faultless or supermouse.
[He had gone to the wedding of the daughter of a
friend and then went to the village inn, the Cat
and Mouse,where he got thoroughly soused and found it
easier to float rather than walk home]
He drifted down the path to his workshop, ..., and
settled down at his pottery bench....
And thereupon the sensation came over him most
intently and the idea smote him like a stroke of
lightning: Now! Now this very moment, here tonight,
this instant, I shall make my supermouse.
At last, at last! Everything that he ever seemed to
have known both about mice and the making of glazed
ceramic figures cane together. And at that particular
instant he felt he was the greatest ceramist the world
has ever known, and that the mouse he was about to make
would be the most beautiful and perfect that anyone
had ever seen.
<......>
"what is art?" he said to himself, and then answered,
"Art is creation and I am a creator."
<......>
He was pouring all of himself that there was
into the little creature that was so smoothly and
beautifully taking shape beneath his fingers.
[3 - pls read comments after you finish the ENTIRE POST]
At last it was done.
<......>
so I've made a Manx Mouse
.... all the love and hopes he had poured into the making
of this one mouse had called forth the magic of a true
creation. And when that has taken place, anything can
happen.
<......>
And thus, having played his part, the ceramist now
vanishes from our story.
But for Manxmouse, the adventure had just begun.



<end of chapter one, with many more wonderful chapters
to follow. 
Now ............ the old ceramist is a Potter and he
creates a mouse that comes to life and has all kinds
of adventures. He ultimate destiny is to confront his
arch enemy, the Manx Cat! He also is subject to a
prophecy, called The Doom, and .... but I digress....

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

OK, OK, I know, I know ....
my clock has struck thirteen.....
stray cats have been looking at me strangely ...
my house has been tossed and trashed by the
DEA looking for crack


But

I assure you that by the end of this post,
which quotes from the first chapter of Manxmouse,
and the next, which carefully analyzes select parts
of POA and other canon....
you probably STILL won't be convinced!

I can't say I blame you.

But if you are still reading this, I don't think
you would be able to dismiss the theory as IMPOSSIBLE.
REEEDIKKKULUSSSS maybe..... but the boggart of doubt
will linger...

Like you are probably doing now, I too said WHOA THERE!
This is SOOOOOO X-FILE! This can't be true !!!

So........
I started looking through the Potterbooks feverishly
mumbling to myself faster than Mundungus filching
cauldrons that there HAD to be somewhere that
conclusively stated that James Potter was the blood
father of Harry.... HAD TO BE!!!!

But upon careful reading and syllable slicing, more
questions were raised than answered......

If you can find a flaw, I will be glad to eat all the
crows in front of Hagrid's hut in the POA movie.......
But be careful..... JKR is very very slippery with her
words - snakelike, I would say {to quote Lucius Malfoy}

In the remainder of this post, I will analyze just one
of Dumbledore's phrases at the end of POA.



canon (POA pg 427-428) Harry & DD discuss the Patronus
------------------------------------------------------
HARRY : "I thought it was my dad who'd conjured my
Patronus. I mean, when I saw myself across the lake...
I thought I was seeing him."

"An easy mistake to make," said Dumbledore softly.
"I expect you'll tire of hearing it, but you do look
extraordinarily [1] like James [2]. Except for
the eyes...you have your mother's eyes."

[3] is from Manxmouse - see above


[1] I whipped out my trusty Webster's New World
Collegiate dictionary and saw the following synonyms -

very unusually, remarkably, exceptionally.

Well, THAT seems clear, even if it is in italics......
Harry looks remarkably like James {read:"his dad"}.....
BUT WAIT ! THERE IS ANOTHER DEFINITION !!!!

DEFINITION 2
Not according to the usual custom or regular plan.......

What did that sentence mean to YOU?
My interpretation ...

You would EXPECT that a son might look like his father....
but by adding "extraordinary" !!in italics no less !!
tells me that ......

Harry looks like JAMES, but NOT FOR THE
REASONS YOU MIGHT EXPECT...............
Toss THAT one about ..............


[2] Dumbledore has been saying your father both
before and after, yet here he says JAMES ....

[3 - if you skipped to here, please go back or this
won't make any sense..... If you didn't notice this
reference in Manxmouse, pls go back and reread..]
Now checking the POA references, you will note that
JKR says TWICE "your father is alive in you, Harry"
Father as in creator?

Hmmmmmm............




and then there's the short lifeline,
and the unsnippable hair, and
Dumbledore's distinction between
using James and father, and the
amazing parallels with Voldemort's
restoration, Harry's I DON'T WANT TO
BE HUMAN RANT in oop, .....

Not so certain anymore, are we?



"That was just a taster!!!!" - Bellatrix Lestrange