PS/SS chapters 16/17 - post DH look

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"In years to come Harry would never quite remember how he had 
managed to get through his exams when he half  expected Voldemort to 
come bursting through the door at any moment" - p.262

Alla:

Well, this quote is not exactly new, but I am typing it up again to 
feel pleased one more time that it turns out to foreshadow exactly 
what Geoff used to bring it up for - Harry lives YAY.


"I've just thought of something," said Harry. He had turned 
white. "We've got to go and see Hagrid, now"
'Why?" panted Hermione, hurrying to keep up.
"Don't you think it's a bit odd," said Harry scrambling up the 
grassy slope, "that what Hagrid wants more than anything else is a 
dragon, and a stranger turns up who just happens to have an egg in 
his pocket? How many people wander around with dragon eggs if it's 
against wizard law? Lucky they found Hagrid, don't you think? Why 
didn't I see it before?" - p.265


Alla:

Another example of Harry thinking :) and before Hermione realised it 
even. Love.



"We've got to go to Dumbledore," said Harry. "Hagrid told that 
stranger how to get past Fluffy, and it was either Snape or 
Voldemort under that cloak - it must've been easy, once he'd got 
Hagrid drunk. I just hope Dumbledore believes us" - p.266


Alla:

This bit just annoyed me all over again. Harry is NOT rushing into 
the battle yet. He wants to go to Dumbledore, to responsible adult 
now when he collected all the proof, or he thinks so LOL.

It just seemed to me that Dumbledore beat out of him whatever 
remaining trust in adults he had, metaphorically speaking.

Yeah, I am surprised that he rushed to save Sirius in OOP.... NOT.



"Be warned, Potter - any more nighttime wanderings and I will 
personally make sure you are expelled. Good day to you" - p.269.


Alla:

HA. I knew it. I am not bringing this quote to argue whether Snape 
really meant to expel Harry or just threatened it, I am just 
bringing it up to show that it exists. Some time ago somebody ( do 
not remember who it was) was arguing that Snape is not even saying 
the word "expel" to Harry.

Um, yeah, he does do that.


"Not for nothing, though, was Harry the youngest Seeker in a century.
He had a knack for spotting things other people did not." - p.280


Alla:

He was the best candidate to seek horcruxes then?



"I see you are not to be distracted. Very well, the Stone. Professor 
Quirrell did not manage to take it from you. I arrived in time to 
prevent that, although you were doing very well on your own, I must 
say.
"You got there? You got Hermione's owl?"
"We must have crossed in midair. No sooner had I reached London than 
it became clear to me that the place I should be was the one I had 
just left. I arrived just in time to pull Quirrell off you."
"It was you."
"I feared I might be too late."
"You nearly were, I couldn't have kept him off the Stone much longer—
"
"Not the Stone, boy, you—the effort involved nearly killed you. For 
one terrible moment there, I was afraid it had. As for the Stone, it 
has been destroyed."
"Destroyed?" said Harry blankly. "But your friend—Nicolas Flamel—"
"Oh, you know about Nicolas?" said Dumbledore, sounding quite 
delighted.  "You did do the thing properly, didn't you? Well, 
Nicolas and I have had a little chat, and agreed it's all for the 
best."
"But that means he and his wife will die, won't they?"
"They have enough Elixir stored to set their affairs in order and 
then, yes, they will die."
Dumbledore smiled at the look of amazement on Harry's face.
"To one as young as you, I'm sure it seems incredible, but to 
Nicolas and Perenelle, it really is like going to bed after a very, 
very long day. After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but 
the next great adventure. You know, the Stone was really not such a 
wonderful thing. As much money and life as you could want! The two 
things most human beings would choose above all—the trouble is, 
humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are 
worst for them." Harry lay there, lost for words. Dumbledore hummed 
a little and smiled at the ceiling." - p.296 - 297


Alla:

I am not having a slightest doubt that Dumbledore set it all up as a 
test for Harry and his friends. I am not asking you to accept it of 
course, but if you are accepting this premise, how far do you think 
he meant it to go?

You think his absense was genuine and he indeed was worried that he 
was too late and that he had to be in Hogwarts at that time?


Oh and if we are talking about Dumbledore killing people, I would 
probably say that he came the closest in mind to killing Flannels, 
still not very directly, but this "having a little chat" does sound 
quite chilling to me.

Oh, and SSSusan I am bowing to you one more time my dear :) You kept 
telling me that "this little chat" is an indication of Dumbledore 
not hesitating to order Snape to kill him. Ooops, too bad I did not 
listen.



That's all folks :) See you from inside CoS. Can you guess which 
topic I most likely will not touch? ;)