Random thoughts

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Amanda" <exslytherin at ...> wrote:
SPOILER.........................................
SPACE.............................................
THE...................................................
BOUNDARY....................................
BETWEEN.......................................
INNOCENCE..................................
AND..................................................
DISILLUSIONMENT......................

>
> Or why didn't the tiny and very lonely soul fragment that was left in 
> Voldy when he faced off against Harry in the Great Hall jump into the
> nearest warm body when his own spell backed fired and killed him just
> like it did 16 years earlier?  There were plenty of warm body's
> watching that final showdown.
>
> Ech!! So frustrated!
>

Yes.... the showdown. I've got thoughts about that.

First though, there may  be a few readers who are a bit puzzled 'cos 
DD clarifies some of the stuff I muttered about in the post starting this 
thread a bit further down the page. 
Yes, I saw it; no, I don't necessarily believe it.

After 6 outings with DD's explications, habit makes me squint at them
sideways, 'cos mostly they don't explain so much as gloss over - DD 
is very selective in phrasing and contents. And sometimes it feels more
like a snow-job than a crystal-clear alpine view. So unless there's some
independent confirmation of what he's burbling on about, I tend to ship
in salt by the bucketful. 'Cos I'll need it. Same this time. 

Now then, please check the reasonings of this old, tired, gin-sodden wreck.

Way back at the climax of GoF, Voldy did the Kauldron Kid bit.  Not only
did he get an outfit any Evil Overlord could be proud of,  he also negated
Lily's protection. Made a big thing of it he did - "Look lads, I can touch 
him! The protection's gone!"  Fair enough, says I, I believe you.

But according to the last explication, the protection wasn't negated, it 
was shared, the infusion of Harry's blood transferring it to his Nastiness.
"Precisely!" said DD. "He took your blood and rebuilt his living body with it!
Your blood in his veins, Harry, Lily's  protection inside both of you!" [*] 
This is to enable Harry to elude the vile machinations of the Dirty Lord yet 
again at the back end of book 7.

But hang on a minute.... that protection was *specifically* anti-Voldy, it 
wasn't triggered by spells or contact from anyone else. So if Voldy's now
got it too - then Voldy-constructed-from-and-consisting-of-Harry is 
protected against Voldy. If he wasn't then the Harry-bits-with-protection
would have rotted the rest of his body from the inside. Hey! Imagine that
on film! 

Thus a Voldy spell rebounding back at him shouldn't knock him out of 
his natty gents hosiery, should it? 'Cos he's got protection against against
his own malevolent magic.

Therefore by the internal logic of the story, the climax shouldn't work. 
QED.
Mutter, mutter, mutter...
Too many plot holes and internal contradictions already, Jo.
This could be another - unless someone can show me where I've gone 
wrong.

[*]
By the same token, Voldy could/should/might be a pseudo-Hx to Peter. 
After all, he contributed much more to the soup than Harry did. Did he 
revive? A sequel!
"Down in the depths of Malfoy Manor, a purple-faced, three-legged rat 
with a snug-fitting silver necktie is making plans...." 

There's a novelty. You don't see many of those in books these days.

Kneasy