The day after

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "dungrollin" <spotthedungbeetle at h...> wrote:
> Hello. 
> I like it. 
> But I have a question (or two). 
> snip>
> How would DD and Snape know that Voldy wasn't dead?
> How would they know that Voldy transferred powers to Harry?
> How would DD know that Harry had *not* already fulfilled the terms 
> of the prophecy?
> 
> Seeing what happened from within the room (rather than from within 
> Harry's head) wouldn't give them all that much to go on. All the 
> powers and curses and protections and minds bouncing around would 
> have to have been very literally visual. You can crank up the 
> special effects and have some explosions and stuff (and even 
> symbolic eerie green lights if you want), but it still wouldn't 
> explain how DD knew Voldy would return, that he'd only marked Harry 
> and not fulfilled the prophecy, and particularly not that he'd given 
> Harry some powers. What could they have witnessed in the pensieve 
> that would tell them so much?
> 

Dunno if you've ever noticed, but spells have to  be cast with the intended
recipient in clear view. Bouncing 'em round corners or at someone not
at the centre of your field of vision doesn't happen.

OK.
The Pensieve provides the equivalent of a DVD recording - and one where
you can change your angle of viewing too.

All voices would be recognisable, all words would be heard and once Voldy
hove into Harry's view over the edge of the cradle intent on doing his 
dastardly deed what happened from then on would be apparent - the spell
or possession attempt, the rebound, Voldy's discorporation, the explosion,
anything said by the Voldy accomplice, screams of agony from Vapour!Mort
- all would be revealed. It'd be like that video of the wedding I went to last
summer - a catalogue of horrors recorded for all time.

If DD  couldn't figure out what had happened - why and how - from that
lot, then he'd be a disgrace to his Chocolate Frog card.

As for Harry having *already* having fulfilled the terms of the Prophecy,
well, he could have done. This is a point I've argued before. In the wash-up
scene at the end of OoP DD specifically uses the word 'vanquished' for
what happened to Voldy. It only means 'beaten' after all. In its usual sense
it most definitely doesn't mean destroyed.

Add in a previous interpretation that 'neither can live while the other survives'
to mean that Lily and James must die for Harry to live, and if Bob isn't your
uncle, he's no further away than second cousin.

Of course, nobody believes me (hides slight tremble to lower lip), but what
do I care. Onward I struggle, bearing a banner with a strange device....


Kneasy