In re: Chapdisc PS/SS 1

[alorkin]

No: HPFGUIDX 187673

Questions:

1. Why do you think Dumbledore did not want to take away Harry's scar?

He knew exactly what it was.  It was Dumbledore, not Voldemort who was responsible for the Prophecy being enacted/activated.  While he claims in book five that he had little faith in divination, I believe he saw a potential way to end the conflict that wouldn't cost him too much.  I believe, given his amoral attitude *as shown in canon*, that he was more than willing to sacrifice anybody to end Riddle.

2. Why do you think Dumbledore just left Harry with a note, instead of
actually talking to the Dursleys?

Again.  He knew exactly what he was doing.  He knew of Petunia's antipathy top magic.  He left Harry on a doorstep in the middle of the night...in the first part of November, because he knew that Petunia would refuse to take the boy in.  He stated in Book five:  "Harry, when you arrived here five years ago, alive and whole as I had planned and intended, well not quite whole.  I knew you had suffered.  I knew when I placed you on your aunt's doorstep you had ten long and difficult years ahead of you..."

Dumbledore needed a martyr.  He knew he was incapable of destroying Voldemort on his own and so he needed someone who could.  Moreover, he needed a totally loyal minion who saw hi in the light of an archangel, and who would be willing to sacrifice himself.  In the military recruits are first insulted, humiliated, beaten on occasion and worked until they drop, in order to destroy any individuality they might posses.  (we were in the Marine Corps.)  It's called 'behavioral programming and is used in military's the world over.   Sound familiar?

3. Why do you think Harry's scar was shaped like a lightning bolt?

This takes some supposition.  Dumbledore says Lily's sacrifice was what protected Harry, but didn't James sacrifice himself every bit as much to allow his wife and child to escape?  Instead, I believe that Lily used some blood magic of her own.  Sowilo, is the viking rune for 'power/protection/strength'  What if she had prepared a ritual to protect Harry and her last act was to paint that rune on his forehead in her blood?  Perhaps that rune, combined with her blood and her willing sacrifice was what it took to reflect death.

4. Do you think it was really necessary for Professor McGonagall to stay a cat all day?

Actually no, which leads me to another question.  Why was she there at all?  Why wiukd she be watching the Dursleys?  There would have been no reason for her to watch one muggle family over another.  According to her, she'd been sitting on a stone fence *all day*.  Why?  The wizards were making fools of themselves *all day* which supposes that they knew that Voldemort was gone. (One even addressed Vernon directly telling him, that he should celebrate as well.)  That indicates that a time period of not less that 23 hours passed between the time Hagrid ostensibly took Harry out of the house in Godric's Hollow, and the time he delivered him to Privet Drive.

So:

Question 5:  What happened to that missing day?

Alorkin