questions I need help answering

[anne_t_squires]

No: HPFGUIDX 173180

 Susan McGee 48176 wrote: 
>
> Okay, so WHY did Snape need to tell Voldemort when Harry was being 
> moved from the Dursleys?

Anne Squires:

To ensure that LV continue to believe that Snape was 1. still loyal to
him and the DEs and 2. had access to credible information about the
Order of the Phoenix.  Thus, Snape would continue to be LV's right
hand man and be placed at Hogwarts where he could protect the students
as best as he could from the Carrows.  Also, there he could easily
consult with DD's portrait.  Snape had access to the sword so that he
could send it to Harry.  DD knew that Harry would eventually go to
Hogwarts where Snape could reveal the essential info. about Harry
having to sacrifice himself.  But, in order for all of this to take
place, Snape had to be at Hogwarts.
> 
> WHO did Snape tell Voldemort was the source of his intelligence about 
> Harry being moved? (Mundungus)

Anne:

No idea.  I thought he might have said Dung.  I also thought he might
have said that Lupin was secretly on the side of the werewolves.  


> 
> Was Grindelwald ever the master of the Elder Wand? I think so, since 
> there were rumors of his having a wand of great power, if yes, how 
> did Professor Dumbledore defeat him...? It was supposed to make the 
> bearer invincible...????

Anne:

I'll admit the wand thing confuses me a bit.  Here's my reading of the
whole thing:

I think DD was just more skilled.  Thus, he defeated Grindlewald. 
Grindlewald was master of the wand, yes; this didn't mean he was
invincible though.  I don't think the wand makes one invincible anyway
or else it would have stayed in the same family.  It's clear that it
had a very bloody past and had been taken in duel after duel.  I think
that in order for the wand to make one invincible, one had to have all
three Hallows.

The reason the Elder wand did not kill Harry was because Harry was
it's true master at the time of the duel.  And also because LV had
Harry's blood in his veins.  As long as LV was alive, Harry could not
die.  It had nothing to do with the fact that the wand was a Hallow. 
At that point in the story Harry had lost the stone/ring.  Harry was
not the master of the Deathly Hallows.


> 
> I don't get what Dumbledore meant in Chapter 35 (King's Cross)...
> 
> Harry: "Why did you have to make it so difficult?"
> 
> Then Professor Dumbledore said "I am afraid I counted on Miss Granger 
> to slow you up, Harry."
> 
> What does that mean?
> 
> Susan McGee
> 

Anne Squires:

Here's my interpretation:

I think DD did not want Harry to go off half cocked after the
Horcruxes.  He wanted harry to be slow and methodical in his quest. DD
wanted Harry to learn that he was a Horcrux at the right time, not a
moment too soon. Therefore he gave Harry the Hallows mystery as a
distraction.  DD knew that Hermione would want to investigate the
Hallows and he was absolutely correct.  She is the reason they went to
the Lovegood's.  I think that's what DD is saying here.

But,---

However, I also think Harry had to know the legend of the Hallows.  I
think it was essential knowledge for our hero.  I think that when
Harry took that walk into the woods it was important that he had
rejected the power of the Hallows.  He rejected the Hallows of his own
free will. He completely accepted death, thus getting LV to destroy
one of his Hxes. Harry had a "get out of jail free" card; but he
didn't use it.  He had the cloak, he had the ring/stone, he was master
of the wand.  Yet, he dropped the ring on his way to the
confrontation.  He was no longer master of the three.  This made his
sacrifice all the more powerful, imho.

All of this is just my interpretation, of course.  I think this is my
fifth post for the day, so adios.

Anne-- who hopes I haven't confused the matter even more