What Little Niggling Details will be left?

[Mike]

No: HPFGUIDX 170910

> SSSusan wrote:
> > > So I got to wondering about this:  Just what do you all believe 
> > > will go UNANSWERED from among those things which are driving 
> > > you nuts?  These could be Big Mysteries, of course, but I'm 
> > > thinking especially of those Little Niggling Details.  
> > <snip> 
> > > Here's an example of something I've just decided is likely to 
> > > go unanswered:  The question of just how much Snape heard of 
> > > the prophecy at the Hog's Head.  
>  
> > Yb now:
> > You think that one won't be covered? Betcha 10 Galleons that it 
> > will be clear enough in canon by the end of DH. 
> 
> SSSusan:
> Hee.  Well, actually, I *hope* you are correct about that.  It's 
> just my gut reaction that it won't be covered, but I'd be quite 
> content to be wrong about that. ;-)

Mike:
I think Yb has to be right because the inconsistency between 
Trelawney's and Dumbledore's stories is problematic, imo. First half 
of the prophesy versus there after it's over, just doesn't make 
sense. I gotta believe this was a clue for us readers.

And when confronted by Harry with the revelation that Snape was the 
eavesdropper, Dumbledore falls immediately into the pat cover story. 
In fact, it's the same cover story that Snape tells Bella almost a 
year earlier, even if Dumbledore is less antagonistic in his telling 
than Snape was.

But, another eavesdropping Snape incident I don't expect answered is 
how much did Snape hear in the Shrieking Shack before he slipped into 
the room?

Now for my nigglers. I have lots of Horcrux questions that I don't 
see getting answered. For instance:
1. When did Tom make his first Horcrux? Before or after his chat with 
Slughorn.
2. Can a Horcrux be created anytime after a murder, or must the soul 
encasing be done proximate to the murder?
3. What happens to the extra torn soul pieces that don't get encased 
in a Horcrux?
4. What happens when a Horcrux is "destroyed"? Is the soul piece 
killed, released, or what? And if it is released, what happens to it?
5. And just to settle a disagreement between myself and Carol, could 
Tom have used Myrtle's death to create a Horcrux or does the murder 
have to be by the murderer's hand?

HBP nigglers:

Was that potions book originally Eileen Prince's? Was all the writing 
that of a young Severus or did someone else ::cough,Lily, cough:: 
make some contributions? Why was this NEWT level book used by Sevie 
before he got to his OWLS?

By the book nigglers:

1. Did Dumbledore get any Elixir of Life before the Philosopher's 
Stone was destroyed?

2. What happened to the Weasley's Ford Anglia? 
And one we may or may not get answered, what would have happened had 
Diary Revenant Tom succeeded in becoming fully realised?

3. Why did Dumbledore tell H&H, "you must not be seen", when Hermione 
had obviously been seen all year long?

4. Does Voldemort own the Riddle House now? How about the Gaunt hovel?
Why didn't the Tri-Wizard committee set up some massive big screen 
TVs so the spectators could've seen what went on in the lake and 
inside the maze? Have you ever realised how boring the last two 
events must have been for everyone who wasn't Fleur, Harry, Cedric or 
Krum?
About a hundred questions on Voldemort's whole graveyard speech, some 
of which may be answered, many that won't.

5. How did Kreacher know when to injure Buckbeak?
Was Voldemort listening in on Dumbledore's wrap-up talk with Harry?

6. Is that house in Spinner's End the Prince family home?
When did Wormtail come to live with Snape and when did Snape realise 
that Sirius wasn't the Potter's Secret Keeper?
What did Bella mean by, "his most precious --"?
How did RAB get the locket out of the Birdbath of Doom? Or did he 
swap them out before the real locket even made it to the cave?

7. Why didn't Harry curse Snape when he first had the chance? Oh 
wait, I can't ask that question yet. :)

Mike, who also wants to know why JKR felt it necessary to introduce 
time travel and hopes that she really needed it at the same time 
hopes he won't see it again.