Random DH questions from a lowly Muggle

[dwalker696]

No: HPFGUIDX 172565

OK, the rest of your questions are also buzzing in my brain, I will 
make a stab at them and hope someother people have some insight as 
well!

Mindy asks:
> 4) Was the rest of Mad Eye's body actually ever recovered?

Geez good question, I wondered the same thing myself, while I was 
wondering how the hell and WHY did Umbridge get it? For me, 
discovering Alastor's eye in Umbridge's office door was like finding 
out that Voldemort was using Lily's wedding dress as toilet paper.

Mindy asks:
> 5) Harry used so much relatively simply magic throughout the book to
> slip from the Death Eaters such as Accio, Expelliarmus, Stupefy,
> Imperio... I'm surprised none of the Death Eaters ever did that... a
> simple "accio harry" or disarming him would've helped their cause a
> lot, I'm surprised they never thought of it - they weren't dumb
> wizards!

Donna wonders the same time:
No kidding!!! Well, I wouldn't perhaps say Imperio is simple, but I 
thought the same thing in OOP when the kids rallied off a herd of DEs 
using Petrificus Totalus and Jelly Legs Jinx. OK, back to DH... Maybe 
the DEs weren't dumb, but certainly shortsighted. The dumbest being 
Voldemort! What was he thinking? Hmmm...I AK'd this kid when he was a 
defenseless, wandless infant and it didn't work, I AK'd this kid 13 
years later surrounded by enough Death Eaters to make a basketball 
team and it didn't work, I just AK'd this kid 10, maybe 15 minutes 
ago in the forest and it didn't work, but, what the heck, let's try 
it again!!

Mindy comments:
> 7) The most infuriating plot development for me personally was Snape
> jumping out the window, instead of sticking around and giving over
> Harry his memories BEFORE the Great Battle of Hogwarts. Can you
> imagine, had Harry NOT been in the Shrieking Shack at just the right
> moment, he never would have gotten access ot those memories and 
never
> would have known he was  Horcrux and had to die so that LV could die
> too. Where was Snape's sense of responsibility/loyalty to 
Dumbledore -
>  why didn the give over the memories BEFORE he jumped out the 
window?
> Perhaps he didnt know yet that LV had reached the stage where he
> wasnt letting go of Nagini?

Donna agrees:
I have been going over and over that as well! Certainly JKR uses 
quite a bit of lucky coincidence and irony, but I was aghast to think 
that Harry could have missed all that info. Certainly Snape was 
trying to get the info to Harry - he asks Voldy like 20 times, "let 
me bring the boy to you my Lord".  Why didn't he just TELL Harry or 
throw him a vial of his memories when he saw him in the castle? Who 
cares McGonagall was standing there, the gig was up, what on earth 
did he need to go back to Voldy for, he could have stayed and helped! 
My only guess is exactly what you said - DD told him to tell Harry if 
and when he ever saw Voldy acting phobic for the safety of Nagini. 
And I suppose if Harry hadn't been at Snape's side at death, we 
wouldn't have had those haunting last words - "Look....at.....me..."  
which I found sad (and mildy unhealthily obsessive) at the same time. 
Snape wanted, essentially, for Lily's eyes to look at him, he wanted 
to be able to gaze upon those eyes he loved so much, despite that 
Lily's eyes were gazing at him out of Harry's body.  Sad. A little 
twisted, I think even DD recognized Snape's love for Lily (and her 
eyes) as being obsessive.
 
Donna