How It All Ends and Other Blather

[annemehr]

Talisman wrote:
> So, yeah, tiresome as it is, I continue to think that Harry is a Hx.
> (It's not my fault, blame Rowling.) Not one that Voldemort made;
> one that DD made. All in that cataclysmic night at Godric's
> Hollow. Voldemort did the murder, but DD cast the spell.

Lyn J. Mangiamelli wrote:
> Of course, as you know, I think the evil force preceeds Sally. The
> striking think, to me, is that Sally didn't appear to start out bad.
> He was the special friend of Griffyndor and started out (and to a
> great extent remains) a respected school founder. Sally changed,
> he almost surely made a Faustian bargain, perhaps in his desire
> to protect and strengthen the hand of his magical bretheren.

Kneasy wrote:
Sal was tempted, IMO - by the possibility of immortality. There're
ennough references to it throughout the books to make it a
reasonable motivation. He only partly succeeded - his spirit, persona
or whatever you want to call it did become effectively immortal, not
so his body. He became a disembodied entity, as exemplified by
Vapour!Mort - the potential for irresistible power is there, but it
can't work properly until it gets a body. Better still, an immortal body,
then he'd really have the world by the tail.


Anne:
Talisman -- Where do I sign?

So DD blushed when McGonagall said he was too Noble to use any of
Voldemort's powers, did he?  I love it when sentences turn out to mean
the opposite of what you thought they did.

And Lyn and Kneasy can both be right about Salazar.  Keeping
Wizardkind safe was the bait, until the immortality hook could be set.

For Carolyn: Don't worry about how DD got there fast enough to do the
Hx spell -- he had an alarm system at GH, I have no doubt.  A spare
portrait was placed there of an old and trusted ex-headmaster, or DD
made sure James knew how to call Fawkes to his side, or James sent a
Patronus-message.  Something.  Once DD knew, he dispatched Hagrid
there by Thestral, and then he himself apparated there, did the spell,
and left.  Yes, he left Harry there -- so what?  He left him on a
doorstep the next night, and he still needed Hagrid to take Harry
to... I don't know.  But he needed Hagrid to do something, or else why
on earth send Hagrid at all?

Hmmm... why did he send Hagrid, anyway?  And why was Hagrid late? 
Mmmmm... maybe he took Harry and a Fawkes-feather to Diagon Alley to
get a special wand made?  Can't rush these things, you know, it takes
time, and this wand had to be perfect.  And Hagrid was well-suited to
that errand.  If he was ambushed on the way by roving DEs, their
spells would bounce right off him -- he's nice and safe, a heavily
armored vehicle.  Yeah, I like it so far.  It needs a little something
more, though...

Anne