Voldemort is going full Bond villain and talking when he should be killing. I figure I’ll have to sleep on this problem, but here are some observations:
Harry can’t speak with the Death Eaters. We haven’t been told of a secret Parselmouth among them, so any conversation will be intelligible only to Harry and to Voldemort.
Voldemort can periodically ask in Parseltongue whether Harry is doing anything to try to escape, and a refusal to answer would likely result in a swift death.
It has been pointed out in canon that a good Legilimens can detect when someone is casting a spell (Harry vs. Snape in Half-Blood Prince). Whether wordless, wandless magic could evade Voldemort in this scenario is questionable.
The area is warded, so Apparition, portkeys, and probably phoenix teleportation might not be usable. On the other hand, Harry is Tom Riddle. Death Eaters were able to apparate to the location, suggesting those particular wards could be bypassed. Perhaps Voldemort committed an oversight here. And Harry presumably still has that portkey Dumbledore made for him.
Harry has a big rock whose transfiguration is bound to expire in the near future.
Harry and Voldemort spent a long time brewing that potion. Haven’t worked out a timetable but I figure Harry’s got a fair chance of stalling until someone notices him gone.
We don’t know where Cedric fits in. However, involving him would basically involve us making up explanations given our knowledge of how things turn out. Absent any detail of Harry’s plans regarding him, we can’t have involve some secret plan between the two.
Patronus 2.0 is the big daddy of things Voldemort doesn’t know and would take a long time to understand. Partial transfiguration is another useful power Voldemort knows not. Using them could be an issue on account of the tactical situation, but Harry can certainly talk about them and possibly sell them as something Voldemort would want to take the time to learn.
At present, I figure that the best approach that doesn’t involve deux ex machina (admittedly a power of canon-Harry) or details unknown to the reader would involve talking to Voldemort and trying to either buy time or pique his interest enough to delay killing Harry until a later day. Using any kind of force to resist would be extremely risky and likely futile.
Voldemort is going full Bond villain and talking when he should be killing.
Harry has some power that Voldemort knows that, that very possibly could die with Harry. It seems like the right play for Voldemort to let him talk for a bit.
Harry and Voldemort spent a long time brewing that potion. Haven’t worked out a timetable but I figure Harry’s got a fair chance of stalling until someone notices him gone.
It was about an hour. Somewhere between three and four hours remain until someone Harry leaves, and it may be further until someone notices that he is gone.
Somewhere between three and four hours remain until someone Harry leaves, and it may be further until someone notices that he is gone.
It’s June 13, 1992. The moon had already risen by the time they got to the graveyard (“The moon above was over three-quarters full, already seeming bright with night not fully fallen.” Ch. 111). Hogwarts is located in Scotland, and the moon tables for that date show that in Glasgow, the moon rose at 8:48 pm, local time. It’s not quite dark yet. The resurrection of Hermione and Voldemort recovering his body take some time.
By the time the Death Eaters arrive, it’s night (“The gibbous moon riding higher in the cloudless sky, the stars and wash of the Milky Way visible in all their majesty within the darkness” Ch. 113). At that date the sun set at 10:03 pm in Scotland.
Now, at 11:04 Harry checks his watch and shortly thereafter receives the (fake) message. Harry goes back in time 5 hours and is confirmed to be in the past at 6:45 (11:45 future time). I don’t know how long it took to possibly talk to Cedric and walk all the way back to the castle and make it to the third-floor corridor in time. If he gave himself some 10-15 minutes travel time, he’s got at most an hour and a half before his departure from the Quiddich field.
Voldemort is going full Bond villain and talking when he should be killing. I figure I’ll have to sleep on this problem, but here are some observations:
Harry can’t speak with the Death Eaters. We haven’t been told of a secret Parselmouth among them, so any conversation will be intelligible only to Harry and to Voldemort.
Voldemort can periodically ask in Parseltongue whether Harry is doing anything to try to escape, and a refusal to answer would likely result in a swift death.
It has been pointed out in canon that a good Legilimens can detect when someone is casting a spell (Harry vs. Snape in Half-Blood Prince). Whether wordless, wandless magic could evade Voldemort in this scenario is questionable.
The area is warded, so Apparition, portkeys, and probably phoenix teleportation might not be usable. On the other hand, Harry is Tom Riddle. Death Eaters were able to apparate to the location, suggesting those particular wards could be bypassed. Perhaps Voldemort committed an oversight here. And Harry presumably still has that portkey Dumbledore made for him.
Harry has a big rock whose transfiguration is bound to expire in the near future.
Harry and Voldemort spent a long time brewing that potion. Haven’t worked out a timetable but I figure Harry’s got a fair chance of stalling until someone notices him gone.
We don’t know where Cedric fits in. However, involving him would basically involve us making up explanations given our knowledge of how things turn out. Absent any detail of Harry’s plans regarding him, we can’t have involve some secret plan between the two.
Patronus 2.0 is the big daddy of things Voldemort doesn’t know and would take a long time to understand. Partial transfiguration is another useful power Voldemort knows not. Using them could be an issue on account of the tactical situation, but Harry can certainly talk about them and possibly sell them as something Voldemort would want to take the time to learn.
At present, I figure that the best approach that doesn’t involve deux ex machina (admittedly a power of canon-Harry) or details unknown to the reader would involve talking to Voldemort and trying to either buy time or pique his interest enough to delay killing Harry until a later day. Using any kind of force to resist would be extremely risky and likely futile.
Harry has some power that Voldemort knows that, that very possibly could die with Harry. It seems like the right play for Voldemort to let him talk for a bit.
It was about an hour. Somewhere between three and four hours remain until someone Harry leaves, and it may be further until someone notices that he is gone.
It’s June 13, 1992. The moon had already risen by the time they got to the graveyard (“The moon above was over three-quarters full, already seeming bright with night not fully fallen.” Ch. 111). Hogwarts is located in Scotland, and the moon tables for that date show that in Glasgow, the moon rose at 8:48 pm, local time. It’s not quite dark yet. The resurrection of Hermione and Voldemort recovering his body take some time.
By the time the Death Eaters arrive, it’s night (“The gibbous moon riding higher in the cloudless sky, the stars and wash of the Milky Way visible in all their majesty within the darkness” Ch. 113). At that date the sun set at 10:03 pm in Scotland.
Now, at 11:04 Harry checks his watch and shortly thereafter receives the (fake) message. Harry goes back in time 5 hours and is confirmed to be in the past at 6:45 (11:45 future time). I don’t know how long it took to possibly talk to Cedric and walk all the way back to the castle and make it to the third-floor corridor in time. If he gave himself some 10-15 minutes travel time, he’s got at most an hour and a half before his departure from the Quiddich field.