[the_old_crowd] Re: "Voldemort"

[GulPlum]

At 14:01 12/06/05 , Magda Grantwich wrote:

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>My point is that there's a connection between Harry and Voldemort
>that Dumbledore and Snape have been aware of (and feared) for some
>years.

Have they? Dumbledore knows (from the prophecy) that Harry has "power the 
Dark Lord knows not" (which, incidentally, considering the other active 
thread here, he connects to Lily's mother love at the end-of-PS/SS 
debriefing), but what gives you the impression that before the end-of-CoS 
debriefing, Dumbledore had any inkling that Voldy had any kind of active 
connection with Harry, or had passed to him any of his faculties? Sure, the 
prophecy had said that he would "mark [Harry] as his equal", but from there 
to  the conclusion that Dumbledore knows there's a connection is a bit of a 
jump. Harry had never previously volunteered anything about his scar 
hurting or having visions of any kind.

This first thing which might start Dumbeldore suspecting that Voldemort 
passed some of his faculties to Harry is the Duelling Club parseltongue 
incident. Presumably, Snape reported it to Dumbledore, but notably Harry 
isn't called to Dumbledore's office until the next day, after Justin's been 
petrified. If Dumbley thought Harry's ability with snakes was anything but 
inborn, he'd have called Harry *immediately*. In other words, there is no 
immediately apparent reason to suspect any connection between Harry's 
parseltongue abilities and the attacks (apart from parseltongue being 
considered "bad" by the pupils).

(I have said before that the staff's underplayed - actually, nonexistent! - 
reaction to Harry's parseltongue demonstration makes me wary; not because I 
think it hides something in terms of the wider plot, but because it simply 
doesn't make sense - in other words: bad writing and plotting.)

Anyway, the Duelling Club comes after there'd been two attacks and apart 
from Justin, there aren't any more for several months (to none of which do 
we get significant known reactions from Snape or Dumbledore vis-a-vis Harry).

Dumbledore voices his suspicion to Harry that LV passed some powers to him 
at Godric's Hollow during their conversation at the end of the year. Even 
so, he doesn't make any claims about the scar being some kind of psychic 
connection (or have a basis to make such a leap) until GoF, when Voldy is 
back in Britain, starting on his road to recovery. Of course, what Voldy 
can do becomes pretty academic once he's back to full force, and it's only 
then that Dumbledore, Snape and others have anything to worry about in 
terms of Harry's connection to him.

--
Richard AKA GulPlum, falling behind again