the mind link / Diary!Tom / wizard divorce / Draco / the Prince's book /

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 180794

Annemehr wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/180629>:

<< Well, the scene in the Atrium really looks to me that LV sensed
from afar that Harry was shouting about the loss of the prophecy. But
I couldn't really prove that to anyone who, like Mike, thought that LV
was actually hiding in the Atrium at the time and simply heard Harry's
voice. (snip) Also, you'd have to believe that LV would deploy
Kreacher and the DEs according to the plan, without being able to
sense that Harry had receive the "Sirius under torture" message. But
clearing the Ministry of guards and putting the DEs in place seems
awful risky if you don't even know if your bait is set in the trap.>>

Well, we could both be right. LV maybe never knew that Harry was
sharing his mind until Kreachy told him, but then LV figured out some
way to monitor Harry's mind, or to observe Harry from a distance, thus
hearing him speak to his friends of seeing the trick vision and
hearing him shout to Bellatrix. 

[*waves to Steve bboyminn* for
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/180644>]

RL wrote in <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/180631>:

<< [Diary!Tom] seems to know things that he hadn't learned in his
first 16 years--how could he know, for example, that Harry WAS an
orphan without knowing WHY Harry was an orphan? >>

Didn't Diary!Tom learned everything he knew about Harry from Ginny
writing in the diary? Diary!Tom wanted to destroy Harry for being a
danger to Diary!Tom's future self as Lord Voldemort because Ginny had
explained why Harry is 'the boy who lived' and (per that bad
Valentine) 'the hero who conquered the Dark Lord'.

A_svirn wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/180665>:

<< If they divorced before the child was born it wouldn't be his
officially. >>

Does wizarding law even have divorce? Do we know anything about what
wizarding law says about official paternity, or about official
motherhood for that matter?

Potioncat wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/180677>:

<< Would things have gone any differently if Draco had quickly agreed
[to DD's offer to hide him and his mother]? >>

Snape would have made it happen. I have faith in Snape's abilities. 
If he'd accepted quickly enough, they could have all been off the
Tower before the DEs got there. Maybe even in time to save DD's life
from the green potion???

Potioncat wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/180678>:

<< Interesting isn't it, that these two Gryffindor boys liked this
Slytherin?--or what they knew of him. They didn't find the magic to
be "dark" or horrible. >>

Except when Harry tried the Sectumsempra curse. And if he had tried
every spell in the book, how many others would have horrified him? The
Prince's book is no proof that young Sevvie was not interested in Dark
Magic.

<< It reminds me again of the excuse given that James didn't like
Severus because Severus was into Dark Magic. >>

Also, Harry didn't find anything in the Prince's book about wanting 
to join the Death Eaters when he left school, and apparently young
Sevvie really was planning on that -- in one of his post mortem
memories, Lily denounced him and his friends for planning to be Death
Eaters and said like something like "see, you're not even trying to
deny it".  

That doesn't do much good for excuses I used to make for Sevvie
joining the Death Eaters, that he had done it in a rage at James and
Dumbledore, or been seduced into it, and either way, then it was done
and could not be undone. Yeah, he still could have been seduced into
it, but he had long enough to think it over and change his mind before
it happened.

<< The real issue was that James disliked Severus because of a
Slytherin bias. >>

Or because of the sneer on his face and in his voice. Yes, at that
first meeting, James insulted Slytherin before Severus sneered at him,
but Severus's response was to sneer that Gryffindor is for brawns
without brains, and I'm sure that wasn't the last time.

Or because of his shabby clothes. Could his Hogwarts robes have been
as out of date as his Muggle clothes and Ron's dress robes?