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The Unthinkable Crime, the Unmentionable Name

2015-09-04T00:30:00Z

Posted by: condwiramurs.livejournal.com

Another little piece just popped out at me.

I theorized in "I Would Sell Out the Nation" that the explicit, and to wizards mortally-terrifying, crime inherent in becoming a DE was swearing oneself to the revocation of Secrecy - the worst and most heretically-inflected form of treason possible in the WW. All but unthinkable to any sane or decent witch or wizard, and very rarely spoken of directly. And that it was the Ministry's and then the public's discovery of this fact about Voldemort's organization, right when he seemed to be poised for a takeover, that prompted Crouch's Unforgivables policy.

Might that same discovery by the Ministry also explain another curious little mystery we never got a satisfying answer for?

Exactly how, when, and why did Voldemort make himself unmentionable? The first time around - before he got control of the Ministry and its various tracking apparatuses in DH.

Um.

Perhaps we should be asking: DID he? By some unknown direct and deliberate action of his own, that is? One that we just happen to never have had described for us in its mechanism or effects...

Or is this another clue?

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The Longbottom Affair: An Addendum to oryx_leucroryx’s Filling the Gaps Theory

2013-06-18T15:10:00Z

Posted by: terri-testing.livejournal.com

Oryx suggested that the Longbottoms had not been tortured into insanity by the Death Eaters, but tortured, Obliviated, and released, in case Frank might subsequently learn more. And that Frank and Alice’s minds had been ripped apart by the Ministry (or just by Crouch), trying to recover the Obliviated memories. Because the Ministry guessed that the Longbottoms had been interfered with by some free Death Eaters, and were willing to sacrifice their minds in order to recover their memories.

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( I’d )

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Filling some gaps about the first war (part 8)

2013-05-11T18:51:00Z

Posted by: oryx_leucoryx

The only new name of a DE Igor was able to provide was that of Augustus Rookwood, the spy within the Ministry. Yet this information was sufficient for Crouch to release Igor, an admitted participant of the raid in which the McKinnons died. ( Read more... )

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Oedipus Crouch

2012-10-15T21:55:00Z

Posted by: terri-testing.livejournal.com

In the myth of Oedipus, it was King Laertes’ actions which honed his own child into the weapon that would kill him. Learning of a prophecy that the son would kill the father, Laertes tried (logically, he thought) to avert that fate by destroying his infant son.

( But not )

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Filling some gaps about the first war (part 3)

2012-09-23T11:21:00Z

Posted by: oryx_leucoryx

At some point according to Sirius, Tom Riddle showed his true face and as a result he lost the support of mainstream pureblood wizards such as the Blacks. At this stage the war escalated to the situation Sirius described in GOF - weekly attacks (which were now being openly claimed by the DEs by lighting the Dark mark over attack sites) that brought the Ministry into a state of disarray - thus creating the backdrop to Crouch's 'War on Terror' policies. ( Read more... )

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