A Very Bad Thought

[Jen Reese]

Ginger:
> 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.  

Jen: Hehe, I like the way you think Ginger. Someone on HPFGU 
suggested Rosmerta Amy Benson, but that would make her 70+ years old 
and even by WW standards, it's a little hard to imagine Ron lusting 
after someone older than his mom ;). So we'll go with little Rowena 
for now.

Ginger: 
> 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.

Jen: Now this doesn't work for Tom getting Rowena's family heirloom, 
but it's entirely possible Amy was adopted out by a family and went 
to another wizarding school in Europe. That way DD wouldn't know 
what happened to her, and it might explain why she was on a solo 
Horcrux search instead of casting her lot with DD & Co. 

A darker theory I like at the moment is the cave incident did some 
permanent damage to Amy. It forced the magic out of her much like 
Neville's uncle throwing him out the window, but she also got a 
little twisted, too. Since her name wasn't down for Hogwarts for 
whatever reason (born in another country perhaps), she didn't show 
up on the MOM radar and was never treated at St. Mungos. So she grew 
up obsessed with the idea of getting back at Tom Riddle and thus 
followed his life very closely, especially once he left Hogwarts. 
And if the potion didn't kill her, she may be working at Hogwarts 
right now, using her adopted name. <beg>

ginger:
> 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?  

Jen: Hey, that thimble caught my eye too. Didn't really fit in with 
the yo-yo and mouth organ. And the fact that Harry wondered about 
the mouth organ, too. The thimble reminded me of an elementary 
school exercise: "Look at this picture of three items and decide 
which one doesn't belong." Dumbledore said he would know if Tom 
didn't return the items, but he would he know if Tom took one back?

Jen, speculating wildly under the radar of the Humor Control 
Division of the MOM, currently attempting to infiltrate HPFGU.