CoS chapters 17-18 post DH look

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 181311

> CoS:
> "Of course, she didn't know what she was doing at first" - p.310
> 
> Alla:
> 
> At first?

zgirnius:
She eventually suspected she was doing some of the things Tom made 
her do, like when she came to with blood and feathers all over her. I 
think this is what Tom means. And that it was the diary which made 
her do it, so she tossed it down the toilet.

> CoS:
> "On the other hand, Tom Riddle, poor but brilliant, parentless but 
> so brave, school prefect , model student... on the other hand, big 
> blundering Hagrid, in trouble every other week, trying to raise 
> werewolf cubs under his bed, sneaking off to the Forbidden Forest 
to 
> wrestle trolls ... but I admit even I was surprised how well plan 
> worked" - p.311-312

> Alla:
> Another thing - JKR told us in the interview that Tommy flat out 
> lied here - no werewolf cubs for Hagrid, alas.

zgirnius:
I would not necessarily call this a lie, even if it is factually 
inaccurate. Did Hagrid wrestle trolls either, I wonder? Or are both 
fanciful, top of the head concoctions intended to mock the sorts of 
activities that did get Hagrid into trouble every other week, as Tom 
may neither have known nor cared what Hagrid was up to until he 
needed to get him to take the fall?

> CoS: 
> "Twice - in your past, in my future - we have met" - p.316
> 
> Alla:
> 
> I mean he says Ginny told him all about Harry, but Ginny 
> does not really know what happened in PS/SS, no?

zgirnius:
Ginny is Ron's little sister, and a friend of Hermione. I don't think 
a great deal of plot hole filler is needed to suggest Ginny DOES 
know. 

>CoS:
> "What interests me most," said Dumbledore gently,"is how Lord 
> Voldemort managed to enchant Ginny, when my sources tell me that he 
> is currently in hiding in the forests of Albania" - p.328
> 
> Alla:
> 
> So DD does not know about horcruxes yet after all or does he?

zgirnius:
He may have suspected, but did not know. He states in 
HBP, "Horcruxes", that he figured it out when Harry described the 
diary to him. He could only account for its ability to think and act 
independently by supposing the diary had been a Horcrux.