Harry Potter Theories
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What about the new harry potter book, eh? I finished reading it last night and was fairly blown away. Here’s a few of my pet theories about what was going on, and some predictions for book 7.
Let’s review the horcruxes first - Nagini (Voldemort’s snake) is one, there’s the amulet stolen by RAB, and the ring that Dumbledore destroyed when he burnt his right hand. That leaves four potentially unaccounted for - something of Ravenclaw’s, something of Hufflepuff’s (probably the goblet that we saw in one of the pensieve sequences). These off the top of my head - correct me if I’ve missed something, it’s late…
OK, my pet theories now. First, I reckon that Harry is one of the horcruxes too. Or his scar is, or something like that. If a snake can be one, then why not a person? In favour of this theory is the fact that it explains his psychic connection to Tom Riddle/Voldemort, and explains why he is a parselmouth, if he’s carrying part of Riddle’s soul with him. Against this theory is the fact that Voldemort tried to kill him in book 4, but maybe he considered it worth it to get rid of the one who was allegedly prophesied to defeat him.
Second, who is RAB, the mysterious figure who stole the real amulet and left the replacement? The only person that I can think of is Mr. Borgin (or Burke?). He would have been privy to Tom Riddle’s comings and goings at the time that he was collecting the horcruxes, and some bad feeling between Borgin and Riddle probably developed while the latter was working at the shop. I don’t think his first names have ever been mentioned in the books anywhere.
Third one. The prophesy stated that Voldemort’s nemesis would be one born in the seventh month, which leaves only Harry and Neville Longbottom. However, Hermione is born in September, also the seventh month in name if not numerical index. I reckon she’ll be heavily involved in defeating him, at the least. (And, let’s face it, she knows what she’s doing.)
Only a couple of years or so to wait….
Let’s review the horcruxes first - Nagini (Voldemort’s snake) is one, there’s the amulet stolen by RAB, and the ring that Dumbledore destroyed when he burnt his right hand. That leaves four potentially unaccounted for - something of Ravenclaw’s, something of Hufflepuff’s (probably the goblet that we saw in one of the pensieve sequences). These off the top of my head - correct me if I’ve missed something, it’s late…
OK, my pet theories now. First, I reckon that Harry is one of the horcruxes too. Or his scar is, or something like that. If a snake can be one, then why not a person? In favour of this theory is the fact that it explains his psychic connection to Tom Riddle/Voldemort, and explains why he is a parselmouth, if he’s carrying part of Riddle’s soul with him. Against this theory is the fact that Voldemort tried to kill him in book 4, but maybe he considered it worth it to get rid of the one who was allegedly prophesied to defeat him.
Second, who is RAB, the mysterious figure who stole the real amulet and left the replacement? The only person that I can think of is Mr. Borgin (or Burke?). He would have been privy to Tom Riddle’s comings and goings at the time that he was collecting the horcruxes, and some bad feeling between Borgin and Riddle probably developed while the latter was working at the shop. I don’t think his first names have ever been mentioned in the books anywhere.
Third one. The prophesy stated that Voldemort’s nemesis would be one born in the seventh month, which leaves only Harry and Neville Longbottom. However, Hermione is born in September, also the seventh month in name if not numerical index. I reckon she’ll be heavily involved in defeating him, at the least. (And, let’s face it, she knows what she’s doing.)
Only a couple of years or so to wait….
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Pingback by classical geek » Blog Archive » Plain Text Obfuscation — July 22, 2005 @ 11:35 am
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Comment by Rob Sanheim — July 22, 2005 @ 1:20 pm
It would be possible, Rob, and you’re not the only person to ask me this. When I hit ‘reveal’, I pull the hidden values from a special attribute that I’ve put in the SPAN tags when obfuscating, and discard the obfuscated value. I suppose I could write the obfuscated value into another attribute too, and allow toggling between the two modes.
I’ll have to think up some more erudite theories about Harry Potter first, of course :-)
Comment by dave — July 22, 2005 @ 1:28 pm
(!!! Spoilers included !!!)
So,
4 horcruxes to find and destroy.
I’m wondering if it will take more than a year to find and destroy them? Perhaps the next book will have to span multiple years. As Harry won’t be going back to school - this leaves him free to wander, hunting the soul containers.
Also, Neville I think will actually be the one mentioned in the prophesy. Although ol’ Morty picked Harry - I would bet that Rowling will do a switch on us at the very end. I predict Voldy will kill Neville fulfilling the prophesy but then Harry will then kill Voldy - Snape will die by the hand of Hermione.
The three of them go Crux (Cross?) hunting - leaving Hogwarts behind.
Harry, who has lost EVERYBODY of emotional station, will have to have someone to stabilize him - Jinny comes to mind.
Comment by mage — July 26, 2005 @ 3:38 pm
I dunno, Hermione fighting Snape doesn’t sound too likely to me, they didn’t have that much against each other, not the way Harry does. And remember, if Harry is a horcrux, then Voldemort can’t be killed until Harry is, which is a bit of a problem. Voldemort, on the other hand, would still be free to kill Harry without risking his immortality so long as at least one other horcrux is still intact. A pretty desperate thing to do, zap 1/7 of your own soul, but I reckon he’d do it.
Comment by dave — July 26, 2005 @ 8:43 pm
Ok……
R A B is riddle and Burke OR burgin because they like things worth lots of money.
Harry is a horcrux and neville is the chosen one and for neville to defeat voldemort he has to kill harry.
Dumbledore is alive and the dumbledore that is ‘killed’ is actually peter pettigrew and is protecting harry because of how harry saved hus life in book 3.
Comment by catherine — November 7, 2005 @ 9:48 am
Hi Catherine,
Someone pointed out to me the other day that RAB could also stand for Regulus Black, Sirius’ brother, so I may be on the wrong track completely with Borgin and Burke.
Anakin Skywalker is the chosen one, last time I checked :-) Seriously though, I’m sticking with Hermione as the real one behind the prophecy.
Interesting idea that Dumbledore’s still alive. Again, though, I don’t buy it. While it might be a neat plot twist, it doesn’t fit with the bigger coming-of-age theme really, and Fawkes the Phoenix would know the difference anyway (if it was the real Fawkes that sang the song and flew off, of course!) If Dumbledore does reappear in book 7, more likely that that one will be the fake (did anyone have time to grab a hair from him when he was killed, and then whip up some polyjuice potion?)
Time will tell…
Comment by dave — November 7, 2005 @ 12:26 pm
What is the numerical index? How is September the 7th month? Sorry I dont understand.
Comment by steff — November 8, 2005 @ 7:21 pm
Sorry, I’m dropping into coder’s speak there. By numerical index, I mean the order of the month in the year, e.g. January=1, February=2, through to December=12. By this reckoning, September is the 9th month, and July the 7th month.
Harry and Neville are born in July. Hermione is born in September.
The prophecy states that Voldemort’s nemesis is born ‘in the seventh month’, which we’ve generally taken to be July, on the basis of it being seventh month of the year (understandably enough). However, the months July and August are later additions to the calendar, introduced by the Roman emperors Julius and Augustus, in their own honour. Prior to that, there were ten months in the year, as evidenced by the names. Sept, Oct, Nov and Dec are latin prefixes for numbers 7 through 10, still evident in English words such as ‘octopus’ and ‘decimal’ (and carried through in modern Italian). So, my suggestion is that the prophesy has been mis-read, and that the ’seventh month’ is actually referring to September, and hence referring to Hermione, not Harry or Neville, as is generally supposed.
Comment by dave — November 8, 2005 @ 10:05 pm
Ok. thanks.
Comment by steffan — November 9, 2005 @ 11:53 pm
actually ull find out dat evrything is not as it seems snape is the guy who will help harry defeat voldy n ginny harry thing wont workk out its gotta be harry n hermione if u want clues to it here r some
1.in the 2nd movie he touches her hand which isnt in d book
2.in 4th movie she comes n hugs him in the tent also not in d book
3. and harrys jaw open when hes sees her at d ball
so u see shel go out wid ron and harry wid ginny but harry ll end up wid hemione jk has put these scenes not for no reason but thers definately a hint behind them
also dumbledore is dead catherine
but snape kills dumbledore becus dumbledore orders him to do so if any questions mail me
Comment by Jason Bourne — January 6, 2006 @ 1:58 pm
Do you think it could be possible that Wormtails silvery hand could be a horcrux? Maybe Voldemort had not had time to create all seven before losing power and took the first chance he could to secure his power. Pettigrew is a Gryfindor which is one of the houses Voldemort lacked.
Comment by Katie — January 27, 2006 @ 12:41 am
OK, I really don’t understand how September is the seventh month. Please explain, because I’m confused. K, for starters, I think R.A.B. is Sirius’s brother Regulas Black. I don’t know his middlename, but I’m almost positive it’s R.A.B. is him. I have a lot of different thoeries about this, and all the books. I really don’t agree with all of the thoughts, like I don’t think Harry’s a horcrux. What I think is that because the phoenix was Dumbledore’s, and that in the first book, on the back of the chocalote frog box, it said he vanquished Grindelwald, an evil wizard, and it says when you kill someone you instintly split your soul, so I think Dumbledore made Faukes his horcrux. At his funeral, Dumberdore’s casket arrived in a mass of fire. When Fauxes dies, he bursts into flames and is reborn, so that is what I think will happen with Dombledore.
I also think that maybe Snape was acting on Dumbledore’s orders. What convinced me was a website I discovered called, www.Dumbledoreisnotdead.com
Comment by Jamie — February 10, 2006 @ 2:59 am
Hi Jamie,
Thanks for the link - interesting site, and a few things that I hadn’t considered before.
As for September being the seventh month, that’s just a literal reading of the name ‘September’, which means ‘the seventh month’ in Latin. (Similarly, October, November, December). September is now the ninth month after the Roman emperors Julius and Augustus added in a couple extra months named after themselves, apparently. More details here (http://www.crowl.org/Lawrence/time/months.html) - good old google :-)
Comment by dave — February 10, 2006 @ 12:57 pm
What would make you think that Harry would be a horcurux? If he was than why would Voldemort want to keep killing him? It would be kind of stupid to try and kill one of you life forces when you only have about 3 left. I believe that Voldemort would be smarter than that and would not bestow a part of his soul into another human who could easily die. Harry, being one of Voldemort’s horcuruxes would be extremely unlikley and stupid.
Comment by Steph — February 10, 2006 @ 10:48 pm
Yes, it sounds like a pretty crazy plan. But Voldemort has been pretty cavalier with some of the other pieces of his soul, such as Tom Riddle’s diary. And it seems like a good gamble in the face of the prophecy - if he thinks that either he or Harry must die, then making Harry into a horcrux would ensure that he kills Harry, not the other way round, as Harry can’t kill Voldemort without also killing himself. Again, it’s a crazy gambit, because it also guarantees 1/7 of his soul gets destroyed, but as I said, he doesn’t seem to value the survival of all his horcruxes. It isn’t stupidity, just that he’s taking a very calculated, dispassionate view of the shreds of his own soul, which seems to me to be in character.
OK, that’s the motivation part of it. As an added bonus, it explains why Harry is a Parseltongue, and why he was able to read Voldemort’s mind in book 5.
Time will tell :)
Comment by dave — February 11, 2006 @ 9:09 pm
I have a theory about how D.D is still aive. If Voldemort did go check on his Locket Horcrux, just to see how things were, he’d expect anyone who had made it to the horcrux and drank the potion to still be lying there- screaming for water and such. But he can’t really go off to check all the time- so maybe he had created a potion that would sort of ‘preserve’ people. And keep them alive, but unconsous until he came and woke them. Then the potion would be ‘preserving’ D.D and keeping him alive- be D.D was slightly stronger and therefore didn’t lose conciousness. But when they got back to the tower and Snape (who I don’t really believe to be evil, but, jic….) - and Snape attacked him, the potion took affect to keep him alive…. So he (D.D) uses the potion to his advantage…. Maybe…. What do you guys think?
Comment by Sheila — March 9, 2006 @ 3:55 pm
I found this to be another good site for the explination of the theory R.A.B. being Sirius’ brother. http://www.binarymoon.co.uk/2005/07/harry-potter-theories/
Harry and Hermoine will not get together. Basing any theories on the movies is rediculous since so many important clues are LEFT OUT of the movies. Reading clues from the movies would send you in the completely wrong direction. Take for example in #2 when Hagrid is standing in the lake, upset that Buckbeak will be put to death. Before this scene there is no mention of a problem with Buckbeak and I was caught off guard when it was brought up. Also in the movies they wear their street clothes much more often, yet in the books you never read about this.
I do agree about Harry being a Horcrux, but I don’t think Neville will be the prophesized one. He will be important in a supporting role, but not “the one.”
Comment by KT — May 3, 2006 @ 6:11 pm
RAB is defintetly Regalus Black sirius’s brother who was a death eater but try to desert
didn’t Sirius, Harry, Hermione, and Mrs. Weasley find “a old Locket that no one could open” while they were spring cleaning the black house in OOTP?
Is that the Horcrux?
Is it still there or did Kreacher find it and now has it?
Or did he give it to Bellatrix?
Thats my theory anyways.
Comment by Lily Smith — May 8, 2006 @ 1:06 am
yo dude
RAB is a g who ever he is.
ron and bill maybe?
fawkes is dumbledores horcrux. therefore, unless fawkes dies, DD cant be dead
ol’ voldies plan of dominating our wizard world is foiled again
harry definatly dies becuz if not JK would have to write more books
and
the snake from the scene at the zoo def comes back cuz he said id be back and JK wrote the last chapter of this book back in 1990
personal guarentee
harry is gonna find out he can do magic with out a wand and feel like an idiot for using it all this time
well
thats all
go chip some goalies
fawkes is a horcrux
peace
Comment by chip the goalie — July 23, 2006 @ 7:38 am
How do the effects of the Avada Kedavra curse look? We have two quotes to see.
There was a flash of green light, a rushing sound, and Frank Bryce crumpled. He was dead before he hit the floor.
-GF Chapter 1
Page 15
A blast of green light blazed through Harry’s eyelids, and he heard something heavy fall to the ground beside him…
-GF Chapter 32
Page 638
Both these incidents show the victim crumpling, or falling, to the ground. But then…
…he was forced to watch as Dumbledore was blasted into the air. For a split second, he seemed to hang suspended beneath the shining skull, and then he fell slowly backward, like a great rag doll, over the battlements and out of sight.
-HBP Chapter 27
Page 596
Very suspicious, isn’t it? Could this be another spell? Remember, Snape is an expert in nonverbal spells. Could he nonverbally be performing another spell, while saying, “Avada Kedavra”? Another solution to this problem is shown below:
…you could all get your wands out right now and point them at me and say the words, and I doubt if I get so much as a nosebleed.
-GF Chapter 14
Page 217
If Snape doesn’t really mean it, could the spell have not worked?
Another suspicious “Avada Kedavra” is the one below.
“No, sir- house was almost destroyed, but I got him out all right…”
-SS Chapter 1
Page 15
Since when does the Killing Curse destroy a house?
Comment by hplover — August 21, 2006 @ 8:45 pm
Lord Voldemort fears death. We learn this over and over again- this is why Voldemort worked so hard to become immortal. So if Harry kills Voldemort…
“I was afraid of death,” said Nick. “I chose to remain behind.”
-OP Chapter 38
Page 861
“I know nothing of the secrets of death, Harry, for I chose my feeble imitation of life instead.”
-OP Chapter 38
Page 861
We know that Voldemort would choose a “feeble imitation of life” over death, as he shows when he killed the unicorn in the Sorcerer’s Stone. So if Harry succeeds in killing Voldemort, Voldemort will not leave the earth, but will remain as a ghost. Scary though, eh?
Comment by hplover — August 21, 2006 @ 8:46 pm
I’m sure we all agree that Neville could have been a very important character if things had turned out differently. But maybe… he still is? meow__cat__meow thinks that he may have an important- maybe sinister- background… but he just doesn’t know it.
Neville is a forgetful wizard who barely made it to Hogwarts. As he admits himself:
Gran knows I forget things…
-SS Chapter 9
Page 144
And everyone knows I’m almost a Squib.
-CS Chapter 11
Page 185
We all assume that this is just because he is naturally forgetful and bad at magic. But could there be a more sinister reason? Let’s read this quote to find out another way someone could get their memory damaged.
My father arrived home. She [Bertha Jorkins] confronted him. He [Barty Crouch Senior] put a very powerful Memory Charm on her to make her forget what she’d found out. Too powerful. He said it damaged her memory permanently.
-GF Chapter 35
Page 685
Could someone have put a very strong Memory Charm on Neville while he was a small boy? If so, what was so important that they had to make him forget it?
Comment by hplover — August 21, 2006 @ 8:46 pm
When Dumbledore and Harry are at the tower and Malfoy bursts in, Dumbledore petrifies Harry, as shown in the quote below.
The door burst open and somebody erupted through it and shouted, “Expelliarmus!” Harry’s body became instantly rigid and immobile, and he felt himself fall back against the tower wall, propped like an unsteady statue, unable to move or speak.
-HBP Chapter 27
Page 584
Why does he do this? Harry assumes that it is to save Harry; to keep him hidden.
He could not understand how it happened — Expelliarmus was not a Freezing Charm — Then, by the light of the Mark, he saw Dumbledore’s wand flying in an arc over the edge of the ramparts and understood… Dumbledore had wordlessly immobilzed Harry, and the second he had taken to perform this spell had cost him the chance of defending himself.
-HBP Chapter 27
Page 584
It all happens so fast that we believe him. But…
Harry already has his invisibility cloak on! Harry is already hidden!
Dumbledore nonverbally performs the Freezing Spell so quickly, just as Malfoy comes in. Could Dumbledore be ready for Malfoy? Could this be part of a big plan?
Could Dumbledore have petrified Harry, not to keep him hidden, but to prevent him from interfering? What if Dumbledore had arranged with Snape this whole incident, and Snape was supposed to kill him (or at least appear to, see Suspicious Killing Curses)? Then Dumbledore, knowing what Harry felt about Snape and what Snape was about to do, would understandably try to stop Harry from being able to do anything.
Comment by hplover — August 21, 2006 @ 8:47 pm
Fawkes is an extremely loyal bird.
Fawkes has saved Harry’s life, when Harry shows devotion to Dumbledore:
As Harry trembled, ready to close his eyes if it turned, he saw what had distracted the snake. Fawkes was soaring around its head, and the basilisk was snapping furiously at him with fangs long and thin as sabers — Fawkes dived. His long golden beak sunk out of sight and a sudden shower of dark blood spattered the floor.
-CS Chapter 17
Page 318
Fawkes also saved Dumbledore’s life in the Department of Mysteries:
…one more jet of green light had flown at Dumbledore from Voldemort’s wand and the snake had struck — Fawkes swooped down in front of Dumbledore, opened his beak wide, and swallowed the jet of green light whole. He burst into flame and fell to the floor, small, wrinkled and flightless.
OP Chapter 36
Page 815
But now, Fawkes doesn’t even try to save Dumbledore? Why?
The only solution is that Dumbledore did not want his life to be saved. He planned to die that night.
Another interesting fact, perhaps related to this subject, is that when J.K.R. is asked whether Fawkes will play a major role in the next book, she says that she cannot answer; it would give too much away.
Comment by hplover — August 21, 2006 @ 8:47 pm
Every year, something bad happened to the DADA teacher, as Harry related in this quote:
Fred told Harry … “Dumbledore was having real trouble finding anyone to do the job this year.” “Not surprising, is it, when you look at what’s happened to the last four?” said George. “One sacked, one dead, one’s memory erased, and one locked in a trunk for nine months,” said Harry, counting them off on his fingers. “Yeah, I see what you mean.”
-OP, Chapter 9
Page 161
Later, during one of Harry’s lessons with Dumbledore, Harry finds out why.
“Was he after the Defense Against the Dark Arts job again, sir? He didn’t say…” “Oh, he definitely wanted the Defense Against the Dark Arts job,” said Dumbledore. “The aftermath of our little meeting proved that. You see, we have never been able to keep a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher for longer than a year since I refused the post to Lord Voldemort.”
-HBP Chapter 20
Page 446
So why does Dumbledore give the job to Snape? He knows the danger, he knows that Quirrell get killed because of the curse. So why does Dumbledore threaten Snape with the job? Unless Dumbledore means Snape to leave at the end of the year, after killing Dumbledore…
Comment by hplover — August 21, 2006 @ 8:48 pm
The one Harry and Dumbledore went to fetch was a fake. So where is the real one? HP Crime Scene Investigator meow__cat__meow has an idea.
…also a heavy locket that none of them could open…
-OP Chapter 6
Page 116
While cleaning the glass cabinets in Sirius’ old home, they find a variety of objects, including a heavy locket. Could this be the Horcrux?
But how did the locket (if it is indeed the Horcrux) get in the Black home? Can we think of any Black’s that might have the initials R.A.B.? Just 5 minutes thinking, and HP Crime Scene Investigator meow__cat__meow remembered.
Sirius jabbed a finger at the very bottom of the tree, at the name REGALUS BLACK. A date of death (some fifteen years previously) followed the date of death.
OP Chapter 6
Page 112
We don’t know Regalus’ middle name, but could his middle name start with an A? If so, then Regalus Black’s initials are R.A.B.!
Might another clue be hidden in this sentence? R.A.B. died fifteen years ago. Wasn’t this the date when Voldemort met his end?
Comment by hplover — August 21, 2006 @ 8:48 pm
I heard, If everything goes as planned, the 6th Harry Potter movie is set to be released in November 21st 2008-Thanksgiving weekend. Until then, part 5 will make its way to the cinemas in July 2007.
Summer debut for “Harry Potter and Order of the Phoenix” is without a doubt one of the most expected movies of the moment, even if the filming just started and will last another year.
The 7th and final book is expected hit the jackpot even harder since J.K Rowling suggested that some of the main characters might die, including Harry Potter. I just can’t wait it!
Comment by Heather — September 6, 2006 @ 10:40 am
Another name for RAB, Regulas Black
Comment by Pak Boong — December 7, 2006 @ 8:09 am
Ok,how’s this for a theory:
Harry Potter essentially follows classic heroic novels set up.He will probably die in the massive battle with voldemort at the end of book 7.It is entirely possible that he has horcrux tendencies or is in fact at a deeper level in tune with ol’ voldy(scar,prophecy etc).Its more likely than not.
I think the final battle will include neville,ron and hermoine in significant ways:
neville being approximately similar to harry in dead parents and september-i think the likelihood is he will be more important than even harry suspects.I just can’t work out exactly how.
ron and hermione will eventually get together-as a harbinger of new hope past the destruction of voldemort and harry(?).
dumbledore is probably dead but will be resurrected somehow(in a aslan kind of way- he has that annoying habit of being all knowing-like gandalf in LOTR-which suggests he will still be around)
Harry will die-he has enough hold over voldemort(voldemort has to hide his feelings from harry in book 6)to realise the only way to destroy voldemort is to die(in some special way-invovling all the horcruxes?)and make the ultimate sacrifice.
The question is, rather than asking will harry die-will harry alternatively be resurrected after the death of voldemort?Phoenix out of the ashes symbolism?throughout the books-wands and the like?harry’s death will take away the scar on his forehead in the process of killing voldemort and in doing so,voldy will die.
if he is resurrected, or dies briefly(this still counts) and will return to hogwarts and take up the position of teacher of defence of the dark arts- a post impossible to fill because of ol’voldy.he will live in consummate bliss with ginny(whose love may be the reason he is resurrected).ron will be minister for magic and the anti muggle lot(malfoys etc)will end up in azkaban(or become muggles!-revenge would be sweet!).
I can’t wait for the new book-I just want to know what happens!
Comment by Anna — January 17, 2007 @ 1:33 pm
well about regulus being the RAB i dont really believe it he dies a few days after vodlemort went to power (before he tries to kill harry n his parents) n it took dumbledore years to find all about the horcruxes so it can’t have taken sirius brother only a couple of days + i think when harry,ron,sirius ect were cleaning the glass case they would of realised that there were the slytherin marks on that locket woudnt they ? n i dont see how can dumbledore come back as the avada kadavra spell hit him squarely in the chest and when the students look at him on the ground his legs n arms where broken and in ” odd angles” and i don’t believe dumbledore has a horcrux because that means he had to kill someone and he says in book 6 that voldermort underestimated the power of one whole soul so he probably never cut his soul in two and i really hope that everyone survises even if thats kindof impossible
Comment by uppity poshy clary — January 20, 2007 @ 10:21 pm
This is in response to “chip the goalie” and “jamie”. Fawkes is Dumbledore’s horcrux?? Puhlease! Do you not remember that horcruxing is the worst and most evil form of magic? The very suggestion implies that Dumbledore is on the same evil grounds as Voldemort. “Vanquished” does not mean that Dumbledore performed the “Avada Kedavra” curse. As we all know, Dumbledore will not kill someone - he is too noble and good. Heck, he can’t even speak evil of someone. I think you may also assume that killing someone means you automatically have a horcrux hiding out there somewhere. I think it was very clear that Voldemort was the only wizard evil enough to do it.
Comment by Disbelief — March 8, 2007 @ 11:33 am
Hi ‘Disbelief’,
I see where you’re coming from, but the books so far don’t seem to operate on such a simple black/white approach to good and evil. Dumbledore is noble and good, but he’s also practical, and, I think, hides behind the facade of the absent-minded professor.
That said, there are plenty of other good plot mechanisms that could be employed in adding the final twist to the story
- some hitherto-unexplained ability of phoenixes, or of the link between a phoenix and its owner
- polyjuice potion - was it the real Dumbledore?
- time travel opens up all sorts of interesting possibilities
Still, we’ll all know for sure this Summer, assuming that it’s still the real JK Rowling writing the books!
Comment by dave — March 9, 2007 @ 2:10 pm
R.A.B is sirius blacks brother. how do i know?, because he is named rumelus amedus black or something like that. of course that isnt proof enough, but then again i am norwegian. And norway is one of the only countries that changed some of the names in the book. sirius black is named sirius svaart in norwegian. then i read the book in norwegian and it says R.A.S not R.A.B. meaning that the name black was changed into norwegian and they put a s in there instead of a b.
Comment by someone — April 12, 2007 @ 9:59 am
Hi someone,
Interesting! Sounds like RAB is definitely Sirius’ brother, rather than Borgin, then.
BTW, for those who like to check sources, Sirius Svaart has his own wikipedia page here: http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius_Svaart
Dave
Comment by dave — April 16, 2007 @ 7:43 pm