CHAPDISC: DH27, The Final Hiding Place

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 184161


> Zara:
> Ooh, cool observation. Though I am not clear how the presence of the 
> Carrows in Ravenclaw Tower was needed for the destruction of the tiara. 

 COuld you expand on your ideas about this? Or did you mean that the 
> Carrows themselves were instrumental (because Amycus taught Crabbe
to  cast Fiendfyre)?
> 
> My own thought, because I like your suggestion, is that his
conection  to it is greater in HBP. Harry's affection for the Prince
sent him into  the RoR to hide the Potions book, where he found the
tiara and used it  to mark the location of the book.
>

Pippin:
Good points, but  I was thinking of  this: 

"*Voldemort thought I'd go to Ravenclaw Tower.* [emphasis original]
There it was: a solid fact, the place to start. Voldemort had
stationed Alecto Carrow in the Ravenclaw common room, and there could
be only one explanation: Voldemort feared that Harry already knew his
horcrux was connected to that house." -DH ch 31


Harry attributes the Alecto's presence in the common room to Voldemort
directly, but  from earlier canon  the instructions would have come
through Snape.

"Nevertheless, it would be prudent to alert Snape that the boy might
re-enter the castle...to tell Snape why the boy might return would be
foolish of course;" -- DH ch 27

McGonagall says that the Carrows are wherever [Snape] told them to be,
and I don't imagine that Flitwick would have admitted Alecto to
Ravenclaw Tower except on Snape's orders. That she is alone and
without backup is certainly Snape's doing.


Pippin