CoS chapters 17-18 post DH look

[Bex]

No: HPFGUIDX 181333

> > 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?
> 
Bex:
Werewolf cubs... Good thing that's a lie. I am pretty darn sure that
werewolves have babies, not cubs. Our favorite one in particular had a
baby (Teddy) bear. :)

> >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.
>
Bex:
DD probably suspected that Tom may go that far for immortality. I
think that the entire reason Slughorn modified that memory was because
he mentioned to DD that model student Tom Riddle asked about them.
When DD questioned Slughorn about it, he backtracked immediately,
saying that he'd told off Riddle and sent him to bed (And then
sometime later revised the memory accordingly).

But DD doesn't even know about the diary, much less how it acted,
until after he prompts Harry (above). This might also be a
Legilimens!DD moment, too - Harry is wondering how to explain how 
Ginny was opening the Chamber under Diary!Tom's control without
getting her into trouble. DD gives him this opening.

Bex