His Little Helper

[snow15145]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Talisman" <talisman22457 at y...> 
wrote:
> To The Coy Moderators
> 
> Had we but world enough, and Time,
> This Spoiling business were no crime.
> We would sit and think of each new way
> To fill up space the live long day.
> 
> Mods, holding up their weary side, 
> Should'st policy bind: I rather wide
> And loudly would complain.  I would
> From tears profuse create a Flood.
> <snip>
> 
> An Age we would pursue this Art,
> An Age to melt a Modie's heart.
> (Tho' Neil, you do deserve to bake, 
> For making Vows you cannot break.)
> 
> But at my back I alwaies [sic] hear,
> Those other Theorists drawing near.
> And Carpal Tunnel is taking place,
> In Deserts of typed Spoiler Space.

> 
> Another feral thought skittered through my cranium this morning, in 
> that twilight between sleep and waking.
> 
> I had already decided that the locket Hx is tucked up in Kreature's 
> bed.  
> 
> It now also occurs to me that Kreature was Regulus' assistant in 
> retrieving it.  
> 
> There would be only one wizard for the enchanted boat to sense.  
> 
> Kreature would have to obey Reg's orders to make him finish 
drinking 
> the potion, and also to make sure that both he and the locket made 
> it back out again. (Or, perhaps Reg made Kreature drink the gop; 
> that would explain his sunny personality. <g>.)
> 
> If further defensive magic was needed to escape the Inferi, even if 
> Reg was debilitated, House Elf's have their own potent brand.  
> 
> As Reg was killed within a few days of leaving the DEs, and would 
> have been suffering the effects of green gop, it's no wonder he 
> didn't have time to destroy the locket Hx.
> 
> But, oh lucky day, Harry has inherited Kreature, too.
> 
> All he's got to do is put two and two together (or perhaps Hermione 
> can do that part) and then order Kreature to hand it over.
> 
> If Harry manages to be bright, he could go on and ask Kreature 
about 
> a lot of things. What else Reg knew about Hxes, for a start. 
There's 
> probably a wealth of info in that little beastie; and, not just 
> about Hxes.
> 
> Talisman, saying: sure Regulus erred in joining the DEs. But he was 
> very young and very brave to leave them--knowing it meant certain 
> death--not to mention to go after the locket. 
> 
>  I agree that DD had previous info on the cave. Sirius doesn't 
> acknowledge his brother's final nobility, but DD *could* plumb 
> Kreature's grey matter (and did).  Hmmmm.


Snow:

I like it, I really like it!

When I first read your thoughts on this matter, I was drawn to Sirius 
as his brother's accomplice in the search for the Golden Fleece, I 
mean Horcrux, for the reasons that you stated of how someone needed 
to take the soul beyond
but after all the reviewing with new 
information, I like this new scenario that would also have given 
Sirius pertinent information if Sirius was to demand it of the little 
heathen Kreacher.  

Those little darlings (toe-rags) are there for more than just 
Hermione's activist-supporter-red-herrings-of-injustice. Kreacher, 
the one we all want to loathe, could be greater than we have yet seen 
him to be. Neigh unwillingly. 

Snow-who's grateful to go outside the world of numb momentarily