A Very Bad Thought

[quigonginger]

> Jen: (My personal favorite for the Dark Avenger is still Amy 
> Benson from the cave, but she would need a little backstory.) 

Ginger:

Your thought got me thinking.  (Chain reaction or something.)

Of the 7 Porksausages, we know 2 (ring and diary) are done, 1 is in 
Snakeman, 3 have been identified, but need finding (cup, locket and 
Nagini-I'm going with that for the time) and 1 is a total unknown.

Which means that somehow Harry has to find out what it is, where it 
is, and how to destroy it.  Methinks there has to be a clue somewhere.

So what if little Amy is the clue?  Perhaps Mrs Cole and staff called 
her Amy because her given name was a bit odd, and they thought that 
her middle name better suited a little girl.  After all, who would 
call a child Rowena?  Or maybe there was an Edwina there and they 
kept getting them mixed up...whatever, they decided on Amy.  

So if little Amy is indeed Rowena Amy Benson, it fits that she would 
have some item that belonged to her family.  I'm not suggesting 
Rowena Ravenclaw's mouth organ, but perhaps something that was kept 
in storage for her until she was of age.

At least Harry has a lead on the missing Floorpolish and can find 
it.  Maybe he goes back to the orphanage to look over Tommy's file 
and looks at Amy's and Dennis Bishop's files as well.

If Amy is the last decendant of Rowena, and Tom knew Amy's real name 
and associated it with Rowena after he went to Hogwarts, he could 
have "befriended" her on summer holidays and found out what she had 
that was Rowena's.  If it was being held for her by the orphanage, 
there might be a record of it. 

The only problem is that Amy would need to be a witch to get to the 
basin in the cave, in which case she'd have gotten a similar 
scholarship, but I think DD would have known about that.

Another possibility would be that she hooked up with a magical person 
and she was the one who wrote the note, accompanied the magical 
person into the cave (undetected by the boat's magic sensor) and 
drank the goo herself.  Perhaps she was seeking revenge on Tom for 
stealing her family heirloom.

There was a silver thimble in the box in Tom's wardrobe.  Were we 
drawn to the mouth organ so we would forget the thimble?  Is there a 
myth/legend that associates wisdom with sewing?  

Ginger, amazed at what enters the mind of one who has a nearly 
completed project and can't access the website needed to finish it, 
but has been checking every few hours in the hopes that it is up 
again as She Who Must Not Be Made Cranky is certainly getting there.