Since we’re doing this by chapter now, I’m not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I’m not sure where to put it otherwise.
I was rereading chapter 26, Noticing Confusion, and—maybe I’m not the first person to notice this—I was thinking of a certain other indestructible diary.
Surely Quirrelmort wouldn’t give Harry that diary, right? But if the book is indestructible, and made of paper, there is magic involved. He does say Bacon was a wizard, but also that his experiments never got very far without a wand. Making books indestructible does not seem like not getting very far.
Surely Quirrelmort wouldn’t give Harry that diary, right?
I thought it was fairly obviously that diary, and thus an effort by Quirrelmort to take over/destroy Harry the way Ginny was (almost) in canon. Harry has apparently avoided the trap entirely because he is under the logically reasonable impression that he needs to learn Latin to read Roger Bacon’s diary. I’m pretty sure other people have reached the same conclusion in previous threads.
We then see a second effort to approximately the same end with the Dementor brought on school grounds (at Quirrelmort’s instigation) with Harry’s wand “accidentally” being left near the cage.
Since we’re doing this by chapter now, I’m not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I’m not sure where to put it otherwise.
I was rereading chapter 26, Noticing Confusion, and—maybe I’m not the first person to notice this—I was thinking of a certain other indestructible diary.
Surely Quirrelmort wouldn’t give Harry that diary, right? But if the book is indestructible, and made of paper, there is magic involved. He does say Bacon was a wizard, but also that his experiments never got very far without a wand. Making books indestructible does not seem like not getting very far.
I thought it was fairly obviously that diary, and thus an effort by Quirrelmort to take over/destroy Harry the way Ginny was (almost) in canon. Harry has apparently avoided the trap entirely because he is under the logically reasonable impression that he needs to learn Latin to read Roger Bacon’s diary. I’m pretty sure other people have reached the same conclusion in previous threads.
We then see a second effort to approximately the same end with the Dementor brought on school grounds (at Quirrelmort’s instigation) with Harry’s wand “accidentally” being left near the cage.
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