Dark Mirror Part 3: The Dumbledorian Denouement
Talisman
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Thu Jul 19 22:59:26 UTC 2007
...or How Twinkles Always Gets It In the End.
A fretful House Elf sidles into the cell where Talisman and Lucius
are still chained to the wall. It eyes the tiny portion of sand left
in the hourglass, as if tempted to give the glass another shake.
There is a sudden movement--a snap--and the neked elf runs squeeling
from the room.
A dingy dish towel dangles from Talisman's toes.
*Here Luscious, grab the other side with your toes and help me spread
it out, would ya? There's no time to lose.*
Talisman dips her pointy toenail in the dirty puddle, once again, and
begins:
We'll keep this to the bare bones, because that elf is going to come
back--with reinforcements--and this has to be tied to an owl in less
than a half hour, now.
The Dark Mirror has shown how Harry emulates the original
DADAprofessors, by emulating their deepest secrets, in the pattern:
1/5, 2/6, 3/7. Thus Harry will emulate Lupin in book 7.
It has also shown how the DADA professors reverse themselves in the
pattern: 3/5, 2/6, 1/7. Leading to my prediction that Snape will
reverse Quirrell in 7, as DD's mole at Darkwarts.
To cut to the chase, the Dark Mirror has implications for DD, as
well. One of the ways it controls his plot line is by causing him to
reverse the original professor's denouements, in the pattern 3/5,
2/6, 1/7.
Where Lupin was revealed as a werewolf in Book 3, DD confesses to
being *too human* in Book 5 (and earlier people are said to want to
prove he`s *only human*).
Where Lupin returns to being an unemployed outcast and hunted
criminal at the end of Book 3, DD--who over the course of the has
become and outcast, unemployed and a hunted criminal--returns to full
social, legal, and employment status at the end of Book 5.
Where Lockhart is Obliviated in Book 2, DD is forced to drink extra
memory goo in Book 6. Where Lockhart survives his ordeal, DD does
not.
This leads to my prediction that, in Book 7, he will reverse
Quirrell's denouement in book 1.
This may be basically the revelation of the other side of my
prediction for Snape: i.e. that DD had been kept alive by Snape's
life support bond, in order to complete his plan involving LV and
Harry, and that he insisted the bond be severed , and chose---rather
than being abandoned to--death.
But still--Gandalf or no--there *may* be some sort of further
reversal. Which, in contrast to Q's death, at least points to life--
even if not in a usual way. Phoenixy and all that.
I'm not at all sure here.
But it *is* fruitful to keep in mind--and look for DD's reversal of Q.
We've already seen that he, like Quirrell, was burnt, not by love and
goodness, but the hateful evil of LV's curse on the ring Hx.
(Hmmm does that mean Lily is the opposite of a Hx? Are all order
members? They re certainly people who would sacrifice their own lives
prevent LV from becoming immortal. And not just as necessary
casualties of battle. )
It was a little premature, but perhaps that is part of JK's sense
that 6 and 7 are two halves of one book.
Or, maybe it belongs to a different pattern thread.
For DD also has a Dark Mirror thread that shadows Harry's DADA
emulations: 1/5, 2/6, 3/7.
The 2/6 connection is involved in patterns running both ways, a sort
of double-whammy, so it can be more difficult to separate them too
finely in that book.
In 5, like Harry, DD can be seen to be in LV's head.
As I've pointed out, he seems to be using Legilimens in the Atrium,
on LV. Knowing when LV is about to possess Harry, knowing exactly
when and why LV stops.
In HBP, DD sports the plum suit --among other outfits--invoking
memory of Lockhart's purple robes--yet with more whimsy than vanity.
DD, like Lockhart, secretly collects other people's memories--but as
important covert ops tools, rather than for personal aggrandizement.
Lockhart amasses/ and cares about his honors and awards; DD loses
honors --doesn't care--except for those chocolates frog cards. J
So, we should expect some past or present Dumbledorian transformation
to be revealed in Book 7, as well.
Okay, I see I'm going to have to leave it here until after the list
reopens.
BTW, this is where Dark Phoenix went South--
I already knew that the DADA's reversed--I'd been making correct
predictions since 2003 based on it. But, I didn't yet see that it
broke out to include DD, too
So I gave the whole crap-shoot to Snape--including the memory goo and
the failure to survive.
But, thanks to Rowling's clarification in that Evening with Harry,
Carrie, and Garp, I took another look at the matter.
I knew the pattern I had was correct to an extent, and when I applied
Rolwing's correction: magically it became quite clear that DD gets
the primary reversal--in the end.
A pattern even more Byzantine then I had expected.
Actually there are all sorts of other plot patterns, which in no way
impinge on the one's I've offered.
As just one more--and not really related to the Dark Mirror (which
confines itself to reflections of the DADA profs.) is the
Sirius/Snape imagery.
Expect Sirius and Snape to be true opposing Rivals. That image of
them in the kitchen at 12 GP is perfect--facing each other with wands
drawn.
Harry loves Sirius/hates Snape; DD keeps a tight reign on
Sirius/trusts Snape; etc.
When the true reasons for their enmity are revealed--Snape will come
out better.
They remind me of Edmund and Edgar in King Lear.
I'm with you, Catlady, one of them may literally be a Bastard.
Burnt right off that Black Family Tree.
(I posted this on another site--back around the time the tree was
released--and Catlady, who is also there, pointed me to her own pre-
existent theory.)
Only this time, the Bastard is the good guy.
*Okay, Lucius, it's been fun, but I'm outta here. If that elf comes
back, it`s all yours
.*
Talisman, Apparating to Darkwarts for as much Bastard time as she can
get.
See you on the other side . ; )
Yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Goblet Theory will just have to be for afters.....
(Even if the wild and Wooly TOC isn't shutting down--I done with the
long pre-release postings!)
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