[HPforGrownups] And in The End...CoS

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 165774

From: cdayr <cdayr at yahoo.com>
>Could he have belonged to someone else in the past? Now that 
>we have seen a different house-elf being loyal (Kreacher), we 
>know how hard it is for a house elf to break its family rules. Why 
>is Dobby able to do it so successfully? How will he (inevitably) 
>help Harry in The End? What will free the house elves powerful 
>magic?

Bart:
I think the point there is that, while house elves have a built in need to obey a master/mistress, they also have definite preferences in who they would like to have as a master/mistress. THAT cuold be fixed. 

cdayr:
>3. Was there a larger point to the entire Deathday party scene 
>besides a fun side-story about ghost culture for all of us? Will the 
>Headless Hunt, the ghosts, etc. get to play a real role in DH? 
>Might these long-dead spirits have some key info on Horcruxes 
>or any other subject for HRH?

Bart:
I haven't said so yet, but it seems to me that if anybody could stick around as a ghost to take care of unfinishd business, and then move on, it's Dumbledore.

cdayr:
>diary's destruction weakened Voldemort? Does Voldie know of 
>the destruction of the diary? 

Bart:
There was SOME canon about that, IIRC; one of the reasons Voldy was upset with Lucius.

cdayr:
>10.    Okay we've been here way too much already, but it is in 
>CoS, so I must include it: 
>
>"Voldemort put a bit of himself in *me*?" Harry said, 
>thunder-struck.
>"It certainly seems so."  (p.333, Am. PB ed.)
>
>So, Horcrux or not a horcrux, that is the question


It was not intentional, so not a horcrux. Not some of Voldemort's soul, but some of his power.

Bart