***Okay, it’s an interesting story, but you know what? Harry doesn’t actually need this information at all.
I don't agree. When Harry slips back into Hogwarts and meets up with Neville and the DA he asks about possessions of Ravenclaw's and Luna suggests the tiara. And things seem to move on from there, with the *assumption* that the 'missing diadem' is Riddle's horcrux. But it's never *proven*.
Right. But it isn't "proven" after the Grey Lady tells her story, either. It simply, as you say, "reinforces" the possibility. But, at the same time, there are absolutely no other Ravenclaw artifacts mentioned by anyone, and Harry knows that Voldemort was worried about Harry looking in Ravenclaw Tower--so the diadem is not only the likeliest object, it's the only object Harry knows about at all.
So, while the history of it is interesting, he could as easily find the diadem without knowing any of it. I mean, he already knows that if it is the object, then Voldemort found it. So, making the connection through the Grey Lady to Tom Riddle is unnecessary to the finding of the diadem.
And it won't be "proven" until he finds it and sees the black tar leaking out of it.
But you're quite correct. There ought be something--a spell, a potion, or perhaps a Horcrux-seeking medallion--that tell Harry for sure when he's found one.
Remember how Rowling had promised, in the "Interview o' Doom", that Ginny would show some 'powerful magic' in the final novel?
You're right! I totally forgot that. Ginny was definitely being built up, in the text as well as the interviews, as poised to do something truly awesome in the final book. And then she did nothing that couldn't have been done as well by Lavender Brown or Parvati Patil.
Yet another dropped character ball.
Nah, we've all forgotten the book
Not me! I was like--what's the point of hiding it if you're never going to go get it again? Of course, the point was to have Harry see the "tiara," so that he could remember that fleeting glimpse a year later.
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Date: 2009-12-09 04:40 am (UTC)I don't agree. When Harry slips back into Hogwarts and meets up with Neville and the DA he asks about possessions of Ravenclaw's and Luna suggests the tiara. And things seem to move on from there, with the *assumption* that the 'missing diadem' is Riddle's horcrux. But it's never *proven*.
Right. But it isn't "proven" after the Grey Lady tells her story, either. It simply, as you say, "reinforces" the possibility. But, at the same time, there are absolutely no other Ravenclaw artifacts mentioned by anyone, and Harry knows that Voldemort was worried about Harry looking in Ravenclaw Tower--so the diadem is not only the likeliest object, it's the only object Harry knows about at all.
So, while the history of it is interesting, he could as easily find the diadem without knowing any of it. I mean, he already knows that if it is the object, then Voldemort found it. So, making the connection through the Grey Lady to Tom Riddle is unnecessary to the finding of the diadem.
And it won't be "proven" until he finds it and sees the black tar leaking out of it.
But you're quite correct. There ought be something--a spell, a potion, or perhaps a Horcrux-seeking medallion--that tell Harry for sure when he's found one.
Remember how Rowling had promised, in the "Interview o' Doom", that Ginny would show some 'powerful magic' in the final novel?
You're right! I totally forgot that. Ginny was definitely being built up, in the text as well as the interviews, as poised to do something truly awesome in the final book. And then she did nothing that couldn't have been done as well by Lavender Brown or Parvati Patil.
Yet another dropped character ball.
Nah, we've all forgotten the book
Not me! I was like--what's the point of hiding it if you're never going to go get it again? Of course, the point was to have Harry see the "tiara," so that he could remember that fleeting glimpse a year later.