Deathly Hallows, Chapter 17: Bathilda's Secret

[oneandthetruth]

Unfortunately for the Hs and us, things don’t stay so peaceful. As they leave the churchyard, Hermione is sure someone’s shadowing them. Harry tries to dismiss it as an animal, but he doesn’t really believe it; he’s just trying to reassure her. In fact, he’s right, but not in the way he means, as we find out later.

As they wander through the town,

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[aikaterini]

/The Horcrux locket wakes up and responds to--something

[terri_testing]

I have to remind you, one way to make sense (Watsonianly) of Tom's memory of James and Lily is to suppose it isn't accurate. My grandmother, in her dementia, was given to confabulation, and it was clear that she believed every plausible false memory she presented when an interlocuter demanded an explanation of something. (She managed to hide her memory loss for years, we discovered belatedly, with my grandfather's collusion. Even after his death, we only discovered the extent of her problem when she broke her leg, and couldn't stick to a consistent story of how she came to fall.) The human mind needs to make sense of things, and when my grandmother couldn't remember what actually had happened, she made something up that made sense to her and explained whatever needed to be explained. And believed wholeheartedly her own fabrication (so long as she remembered it

[oneandthetruth]

Discorporating oneself inadvertantly must be deeply traumatic, and the restored (somewhat) Tom could not be blamed if his memories of the events immediately preceding that trauma had been erased. At the same time, he's got to have tried to remember, tried to picture how it all happened.

So there's at least a chance that this whole scene is Tom's elaborately-imagined recreation of how it must have been, rather than a true memory.

Which would explain the lack of thought for Snape--

It's highly likely that's what did happen. Given that Voldy died, exploded, dissolved right after these events, his memory of the events never would have had time to travel from his short term to his long term memory, so he probably remembered nothing that occurred right before his death. We know that happens to people who suffer head injuries.

However, it still is completely unrealistic for a sadistic narcissistic psychopath to act this way. A while back I read Columbine, David Cullen's account the school massacre. Eric Harris was the SNP in that

[oryx_leucoryx]

Still, at least part of the sound-track matches Harry's dementor-induced memory of the scene, so Tom can't be completely off.

[dracasadiablo]

Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to another episode of Harry Potter Is an Asshole! Today we’ll feature an examination of what an ungrateful little shit Harry is towards Hermione after their visit to Godric’s Hollow. Let’s run down what she did for him in this chapter alone, shall we?: (1) She stayed on guard when he stupidly went off alone with an extremely suspicious stranger. (2) She charged to his rescue when the stranger attacked him. (3) She treated his wounds and watched over him for several hours while he was unconscious and helpless. (4) She apologized profusely for breaking his wand and tried to fix it

[oneandthetruth]

Yeah, it would be interesting to have a competition to see which HP characters suck the most in various categories. There are so many choices, though, I don't think one could ever decide. :D

[ext_2456708]

Or make Lily the secret-keeper. Keep the forcefield generator inside the forcefield.