'crushing the magic out of him'

[dwalker696]

No: HPFGUIDX 173652

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "barkingiguana" <dvdavins at ...> 
wrote:
> Also, the reason that Voldemort killed Snape is something I've seen
> before, but I can't remember where. I don't know if it was in
> literature or made up many years ago by a friend was who was DMing a
> D&D campaign I was in, or what. But the murder of an ally so that an
> already delivered magic item would accept the murderer as its true
> owner was not new to me. Does anyone else here recall having seen
> that plot device before?

Donna replies:
Hi, your post intrigued me, and I started skimming through my books 
of mythology, celtic legend and lore, etc....And after I walked away 
from the computer it hit me - I don't know why this has me laughing 
and a little embarrassed, it's not exactly the literary example I was 
looking for - the movie 'The Ring' with Naomi Watts?  You have to 
show the video to someone else (which could kill them) in order to 
save yourself? I am sure there is something more respectable in 
ancient Norse Mythology or something like that, but for now...

Donna