What if...? - My last minute theory

[sneeboy2]

No: HPFGUIDX 172079

"missvassy" wrote:
>
> I re-read the cave scene in HBP and was paying really close attention 
> to what DD was saying when he had to drink that potion.  It sounded 
> like Dumbledore was being forced to tell someone something that was 
> going to lead or had lead to hurting someone.  I got to thinking that 
> the liquid might make the drinker think of his/her worst memory.  
> 
SNIP

I've always thought it sounds like a child being tortured or horribly
punished somehow. I figured at first it had something to do with
whatever Riddle did to those other orphans in the cave. Perhaps the
drinker has to relive their experience. It's a mystery, though, what
the child is being made to do and what he or she has done "wrong."
Perhaps made fun of the child Riddle? It could also be the last words
of the person LV killed to make the horcrux. Perhaps a follower who
displeased the budding Dark Lord. 

It also occurs to me that the drinker could be reliving some horrible
experience of little Tom Riddle's, though it seems unlikely LV would
want to reveal such a weakness to an enemy who infiltrated his cave.
Still it would offer some explanation as to why he's so evil. We're
told that he fears death, but not everyone who fears death is evil.
There must be some other psychological explanation, unless JKR wants
us to believe that some people are just born evil. Sort of a
conservative point of view and unlike her, IMO. It's going to be hard
for Harry to discover anything private about LV. Maybe this is the
method JKR came up with for revealing one of his secrets. In any case,
I'm sure all will be revealed shortly. 

That scene is also a nice bit of foreshadowing, if the DDM!Snape
theory is correct, because it has DD begging to be killed and Harry,
who we know is DDM!, doing the "killing." 

Sneeboy2