Connecting the dots

[Lyn J. Mangiameli]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, Barry Arrowsmith <arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> Connections.
> I love making connections.
>snip> 
>  Dumbledore. He's the one leading 
> the fight against both would-be EOotU, he's the one that owns the 
> phoenix that provides the feathers. He's also  the one who gazes 
> penetratingly into Tom's eyes and asks if there's anything Tom wants to 
> tell him. Ha! Tom doesn't need to tell him, DD *knows* - that adjective 
> 'penetrating' ain't there for nothing, you know - just as he knows when 
> he pulls the same trick on Harry. So why didn't he do something, you 
> may ask. Good question. He does tinker at the edges, things like 
> getting Hagrid out of the slammer and into a job, but he doesn't seem 
> to be in the business of nipping things in the bud.
> 
> Perhaps he can't, or not with any permanence. Perhaps he can defeat 
> Evil Masterminds (yes Grindelwald, apparently yes Voldemort), but he 
> lacks that certain something that will ensure their total destruction. 
> That is a role for someone else. In the current manifestation of evil 
> that someone is Harry. And Tom? Bearing in mind all the parallels, what 
> was his role? His *original* role?
> A goody who fell from grace? A flawed saviour who succumbed to  
> temptation and made the wrong choice?
> 
> Or was he bait?
> <snip> 


Excellent thought about Grindelwald. I don't have the books in front of me to check for 
sure, but I don't recall anything that clearly demarks the name as referencing an 
individual. Very interesting shift of perspective on that.

The following are some highly speculative points on what is already a speculative theory 
many do not subscribe to.

So well all know the Sally didn't like less than whole bloods. So would SS really be willing 
to share himself in his entirety, i.e, invest his entire powers, with less than a whole blood. 
So yes, if DD is puppetmaster, he might well choose to draw out SS with someone less 
than a whole blood. Better to try to deal with an enemy at less than full force. And perhaps 
why SS as possessor has not yet found a final residence--seeking to reside in those 
potentially powerful, but frustrated that those powerful targets of opportunity are never 
consistent with his standards.  Almost like DD is secretly taunting SS.  Likely not the way it 
is, but these are the thoughts your post generated.

And right on about the legilimacy. Most should have been aware by now that such took 
place between DD and Tom  (as well as Harry) but I think many have not considered (or not 
wished to consider) the implication that DD then knew of Tom's relationship to the 
Chamber (and thus SS). At a minimum, it meant that DD was willing to allow Hagrid to be 
the fall guy, much like he was willing to allow Sirius to be the fall guy (twice). At most, he 
knew the evil potential of what he would allow to develop (why not just see an early end to 
Tom, unless...).  As you've long asserted, it's getting harder and harder to reconcile the DD 
of sheer goodness and the clear implications which follow from the events JKR has already 
put into print.

Ah, it shall all be quite interesting over the next two volumes; I just hope it is not 
dissapointing as well.