Frank Bryce's Death - query

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "mooseming" <josturgess at ...> wrote:
>
> I've been reviewing DD's HRX identification and have come across an 
> *error* which is bugging me and for which I can see no *obvious* 
> implications.
> 
> DD says Voldy got the idea of using Nagini as a HRX after Voldy used 
> her to "kill an old muggle man" for which I take it he meant Frank 
> Bryce in the opening of GoF.  Yet DD *knows* Voldy used his wand for 
> that murder as Harry reports his appearance during the Priori 
> Incantatem incident.
> 

Thinking it over.....
There isn't really any conflict - a Hx is a fragment of soul placed
inside something else - but the something else (locket, cup or whatever)
isn't the killing instrument. And we're told quite explicitly that Frank
dies in a blast of green light, so it's the wand wot dun it.
So, Voldy zaps old Frank, tears his own soul along the dotted line, plonks
it in Nagini, and Bilius is your uncle. 

All this without any preparation and while Voldy is too weak to scratch
his own bum. No, I don't like Hxs as a plot device - at all.

As for how DD knows what went on in the flickering firelight of the Riddle
mansion - well, who else was there? And who could well be one of DD's
little helpers?
Peter, of course.

Kneasy