Harry can’t believe the orphanage brought the kids to this place for a day trip because it looks dangerous.
Dangerous? As compared to giving one of your wards to the strange, flamboyantly dressed man who plied you with drink, with no waiting period or background check? This is the era when cot-death was a cost-cutting measure.
Dumbledore’s tale of how Tom brought the children this way just to scare them because he’s a psychopath makes you wonder why Dumbledore’s brought Harry the same way.
You know, I totally missed that, but in the hands of a GOOD writer that would be an amazingly subtle bit of work. That's the sort of thing that makes me hold out weird little bits of hope for book 7.
It has known magic.
See? Abstinence-only education for caves could have prevented all this!
Dumbledore’s concluded he’s got to drink the Potion. Doesn’t even try getting rid of it in some other way, like pouring it out, spitting it out or vomiting it back up.
It's almost as if he has personal experience in the ways of this particular bit of Dark Magic.
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Date: 2006-09-08 04:13 pm (UTC)Indeed (http://community.livejournal.com/deathtocapslock/13444.html?thread=349828#t349828)
Harry can’t believe the orphanage brought the kids to this place for a day trip because it looks dangerous.
Dangerous? As compared to giving one of your wards to the strange, flamboyantly dressed man who plied you with drink, with no waiting period or background check? This is the era when cot-death was a cost-cutting measure.
Dumbledore’s tale of how Tom brought the children this way just to scare them because he’s a psychopath makes you wonder why Dumbledore’s brought Harry the same way.
You know, I totally missed that, but in the hands of a GOOD writer that would be an amazingly subtle bit of work. That's the sort of thing that makes me hold out weird little bits of hope for book 7.
It has known magic.
See? Abstinence-only education for caves could have prevented all this!
Dumbledore’s concluded he’s got to drink the Potion. Doesn’t even try getting rid of it in some other way, like pouring it out, spitting it out or vomiting it back up.
It's almost as if he has personal experience in the ways of this particular bit of Dark Magic.