Slytherins come back WAS: Re: My Most Annoying Character/Now Rowling's control

[allies426]

No: HPFGUIDX 180617

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mike" <mcrudele78 at ...> wrote:
>
> But this does bring up the whole Riddle-exploration of HBP. It 
> gave her readers a nice background story on whence came Voldemort, 
> and introduced the Horcruxes as theme for the Trio's Travels in 
> DH. But how did knowing Tom Riddle's story help Harry in actually 
> defeating Voldemort? I'm asking in earnest. There seemed to be one 
> heck of a lot of useless backstory in that book, useless to Harry, 
> not for the reader.
> 

Allie:

Actually, I think what he saw in the Pensieved helped Harry 
understand Tom Riddle and his wanting to leave his Horcruxes in 
deeply magical places.  It's a big part of the reason that Harry 
knew all along there was a horcrux at Hogwarts.  (And he saw the 
occasion when it was hidden, when Riddle came to apply for a job, 
and it led him to realize it was in the RoR.)  It may even have 
helped him understand why Riddle would have hidden one at 
Gringotts.  If I remember, he thinks back to how formidable the bank 
seemed to him the first time he saw it.

Allie
(who thinks you'd have to be mad to try and rob Gringotts  ;)  )