A dastardly Voldy plan - was: Re: Lockets

Barry Arrowsmith arrowsmithbt at kneasy.yahoo.invalid
Sat Jul 30 10:31:14 UTC 2005


--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "dungrollin" <spotthedungbeetle at h...> wrote:
> 
> Dungrollin:
> I think the Peverell ring *was* surrounded by protections, and that 
> was what nuked DD's hand. I don't think it was destruction of the 
> Hotcakes that did that. 
> snip>
> 
> "You are forgetting ... you have already destroyed one of them. And 
> I have destroyed another."
> "You have?" said Harry eagerly.
> "Yes indeed," said Dumbledore, and he raised his blackened, burned-
> looking hand. "The ring, Harry. Marvolo's ring. And a terrible curse 
> there was upon it too. Had it not been – forgive me the lack of 
> seemly modesty – for my own prodigious skill, and for Professor 
> Snape's timely action when I returned to Hogwarts, desperately 
> injured, I might not have lived to tell the tale. However, a 
> withered hand does not seem an unreasonable exchange for a seventh 
> of Voldemort's soul. The ring is no longer a Hamsandwitch."
> (p470-1 UK ed.)
> snip>
> 
> He continues about the ring:
> "He hid it, protected by many powerful enchantments, in the shack 
> where his ancestors had once lived." Protected by enchantments and 
> with a hand-nukingly powerful curse on it (à la Opal necklace wot 
> nearly got Katie Bell), I reckon. 
> 

I see what you're getting at, but the potential for a *really* big BANG
becomes possible if DD's words aren't taken quite so literally.
And I do like bangs. Yummy!

Protection, when applied to Horscrax could be one of two types -
might even be both, but two can  be posited:
What can be termed 'external' protection, intended to prevent
unworthy folk from laying hands on the item -- as per the Cave,
and
'Internal' protection that safe-guards the contents of the Hiscroks
as per the Diary.

There was nothing to stop anyone handling the Diary, but Diary!Tom
was powerful magic indeed. It took a Basilisk tooth to destroy him.
It might be that this is what happened with the ring, that once found
anyone could pick it up but delving into it to get at the soul fragment
would give you a really bad hair day.

As a sort of confirmation there're are strong hints that in the right
circumstances the contents of these Harecuts could develop into
something very like Voldy clones by hi-jacking the life-force of any
poor bastard who meddled too much - this being the planned fate for
Ginny when Diary!Tom was in his pomp. Seems reasonable to assume 
that anyone finding the ring and wearing it would suffer a similar fate.
Of course Voldy would only be interested in leeching onto someone
with magical powers, he'd not be interested in snaring a Muggle, so a
searcher would need to demonstrate magical abilities to find the damn
thing in the first place, otherwise any stray bod from Little Hangleton
might pick it up if they came across the Gaunt hovel while strolling 
through the woods.

Consequently giving the GP locket (if it is a Horsecrooks) to your 
beloved to wear might be a very bad move. Dear oh dear. Not only
would she waste away but there'd be this very unfriendly stranger
wandering around the kitchen, planning world domination and who 
knows what else. Breakfast would never be the same.

Supposedly, Voldy survives while even one of these split ends is
extant. But not only are they a safety feature they also have the potential
to become new Voldys if the conditions are right. If so it'd be self-
defeating to hide them in places where they're unable to come into
contact with a victim. It's this line of reasoning that makes me wonder
what all that stuff in the Cave was about.

Now - the BANGY bit.
Cunning this, I think you'll agree.

If Harry is a Hearseclucks then if he ain't careful then he could become
another Voldy - and Voldy planned it this way. There's this sprog who's
equal to Voldy - fine, why not make him into another Voldy? Then if one
day it's High Noon on Hogsmead High Street, wands akimbo, Harry wins
and Voldy bites the dust, then Voldy still survives in Harry. Voldy wins no
matter which corpse gets dragged off to Boot Hill. And he planned it this
way right back at GH. Ooh! Nasty! Talk about hedging your bets! 'Bout
time Voldy lived up to his reputation of a perverted mastermind, and
this would do it with bells on.

Voldy is in a win-win situation. He can't lose - even if the other Hurskroks
are destroyed - unless Harry can get the Voldy fragment out of his head. 
If he can't then Voldy will eventually take him over. DD knew this - hence 
the ".. in essence divided?" enquiry - there was a danger that it might have 
already begun when Harry was linked to the Voldy mind.

Since eliminating a Whorescluck seems to require nothing short of 
destruction Harry would seem slated for the chop.
Poor Harry.

Kneasy







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