[the_old_crowd] Re: How It All Ends and Other Blather

[Randy Estes]

--- annemehr <annemehr at ...> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 

Some clues seem to talk around this.  Dumbledore would
"trust Hagrid with his life".  If Hagrid delivers the
DD horcrux Harry to the Dursley's house, Hagrid would
have been entrusted with the second half of DD's life.

Why does DD seem so interested in developing Harry's
talents?  Maybe he will live out another adventure
through Harry.

I always wondered about the motto "never tickle a
sleeping dragon" (except for the obvious sexual double
entendre).  What if Salazar accidently awoke the
sleeping dragon hidden in Hogwarts that unleashes the
desire for immortality?

What if young Tom tickled the same dragon?  The next
victim could be DD.  But if DD can turn the force for
Good instead of Evil and thereby destroy the menace. 
What if Harry has to kill DD to complete his mission
to destroy Tom Riddle?

Or perhaps the most important question of all!  What
if we had never allowed Randy into this group in the
first place! ;0)

Randy



		
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