LV's reasons for showing at the DoM (was: Snape as Neville's teacher)

[justcarol67]

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Dana wrote:

<snip> So like I said Harry would have noticed if LV was using the
scar link to witness the DoM events but he doesn't do that. As far a
canon supports at this moment Harry feels when LV's enters his head
either by being there himself or by 
> planting the visions.
> 
> JMHO 
> 
> Dana
>

Carol responds:

I'm not sure why you think that Harry would have noticed that LV is
using the scar link to witness events--or rather, using it to monitor
Harry's emotions as Harry is using it to monitor whether Sirius os
still alive, which seems more probable given what we know of how the
scar link works. Harry's scar is aching or prickling on and off from
the time of the vision until LV arrives (when, of course, the pain
becomes much stronger). 

Before Harry uses Umbridge's fireplace, we have: "In truth, his scar
was aching, but not so badly that he thought Voldemort had yet daalt
Sirius a fatal blow. It had hurt much worse than this when Voldemort
had been punishing Avery" (OoP Am. ed. 758)--a clue, perhaps, that the
vision is planted but Voldemort is still tuned in, so to speak?

When Ron, having followed HH into the forest with Neville et al.,
asks, "Has You-Know-who got Sirius or--" Harry feels the scar give
"another painful prickle" (760), another indication that Voldemort is
listening in. (Why else would it prickle at that point?)

The pain seems to stop, or is at least not mentioned, from the time
they begin their ride to the time that Harry tells Bellatrix that the
Prophecy orb is broken, perhaps indicating that the emotions Voldemort
senses (fear, confusion, anger) suggest to him that matters are going
as he anticipated (though possibly they're taking a bit too long).
However, the scar hurts again just at the point when he tells
Bellatrix that the Prophecy orb is broken. I'll quote rather than
summarizing this time:

"Well, you're going to have to kill me, because it's gone,' Harry
roared--and as he shouted it, pain seared across his forehead. His
scar was on fire again, and he felt a surge of fury that was quite
unconnected to his own rage. 'And he knows!' said Harry with a mad
laugh to match Bellatrix's own. 'Your dear old mate Voldemort knows
it's gone! <snip>  The prophecy smashed when I was trying to get
Neville up the steps! What do you think Voldemort'll say about that,
then!'

"His scar seared and burned . . . The pain of it was making his eyes
stream" (811).

At which point, she screams that he's a liar and we have the "nothing
to summon passage that I quoted earlier, Bellatrix's begging voldemort
not to punish her, pain "more terrible than ever," and Voldemort
saying, "So you smashed my Prophecy" (812), echoing words that Harry
spoke *before* Voldemort's arrival.

It appears that Voldemort was monitoring the scar connection and that
he not only sensed Harry's emotions but actually read his thoughts or
heard his words when he said that the prophecy was gone. Note the
timing of the pain in his scar as he speaks to Bellatrix--it "sears
across his forehead" immediately after he says that the Prophecy is
gone--and note Harry's elated reaction, "And he know it!" And the scar
sears and burns so badly that it makes his eyes stream when he tells
Bellatrix that the Prophecy smashed.

I'm tempted to say "sorry, but," except that I really don't want to
sound insincere and condescending, which is the way those words always
sound to me. So I'll just say that the canon evidence for the scar
connection causing Voldemort's arrival at exactly that point appears
to be incontrovertible. 

Carol, with a wink and a smile for Snape, who's off the hook for this one