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Post by Corporal Flashback on Aug 22, 2011 7:07:02 GMT -8
How about this? In The Goblet of Fire, the Priori Incantem caused all of Voldemort's victims to come out of the wand, in order from most recent to least, right? But James comes out before Lily does, even though it's cannon that he dies before her. I'm pretty sure that was was just a slip up that was corrected in later editions.
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Post by Catalpa on Aug 22, 2011 7:10:20 GMT -8
How about this? In The Goblet of Fire, the Priori Incantem caused all of Voldemort's victims to come out of the wand, in order from most recent to least, right? But James comes out before Lily does, even though it's cannon that he dies before her. I'm pretty sure that was was just a slip up that was corrected in later editions. Oh, was it? Both my copy, and the copy I got out from the library had Lily come out last. I guess I got the early editions.
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Post by Corporal Flashback on Aug 22, 2011 7:32:30 GMT -8
^^Yeah, I just checked my sister's copy which is a later edition than mine, they changed it.
edit: as for your second point they stopped after the Potters because James told Harry to "break the connection". I presume that if that didn't happen it'd carry on with people Voldemort killed before the Potters.
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Post by blenderbender on Jan 30, 2012 21:15:50 GMT -8
Well, we know that they had enough info to get him fired from being a school governor. If they had enough info for that then they should have had enough info to get him thrown in Azkaban. Just because Lucius didn't have the governors in his pocket anymore doesn't mean he can't squirm out of Azkaban. He probably had members of the Wizengamot under his thumb. Didn't Draco once mention that Fudge visited for dinner, often? And we all know that Fudge is useless in matters of justice. Or he could convince people he'd be "bewitched by the memory of the Dark Lord into acting this way", like he did after the first war. About their reputations being tarnished, I thought they were? I don't think most people particularly like him, unless they're Fudge and love suck ups. And the incident did help take Lucius out of favour with the Death Eater, as did the battle at the Ministry. What I want to know is, how the hell were the Malfoys not murdered by Voldie? Lucius pawned off a Horcrux because he thought Voldie had gone belly up and couldn't be arsed to investigate, he screwed up at the Ministry, Draco screwed up and couldn't do his duty, and Narcissa isn't a Death Eater. After they lost their social standing, what value did they have that made them worth keeping?
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Post by serenadeofhatred on Feb 2, 2012 16:56:02 GMT -8
Well, that's made pretty clear. Voldemort was pretty pissed when he found out, sure, but remember that it was probably around the time he first came back. Around the time he only had a dozen people working for him. If he murdered one of the 'purest' members of the club, what kind of example would that set for everyone else? Of course, he wouldn't have had a problem with this later on, but Voldemort was probably 'over it' before he had enough followers to afford killing one of his lietunants.
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Post by Heartless Hìppíe on Feb 2, 2012 17:28:42 GMT -8
The last book shows that when Voldy is in a rage he's not really caring who the target is, and being manipulative as he is, Malfoy tends to throw people in front of him when the curses start flying. Mostly though I think that voldermort thinks of it as a kind of sport to torture the Malfoys, and uses them to show others what will happen when they don't please him and just how miserable they can become under the ire of his displeasure.
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Post by blenderbender on Feb 3, 2012 8:15:04 GMT -8
Hmm, I guess I can see that it would be more effective to show the other DE's exactly how miserable Voldie could make you without killing you. Fair enough, and it shows who taught Bella how to "play with her food before she eats it."
And I now have a mental image of Voldie looking at Bella, who just AK'd someone and saying "Bellatrix, play with your food." ala, Morticia Addams.
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Post by makoeyes on Mar 13, 2012 18:37:22 GMT -8
What I want to know is, how the hell were the Malfoys not murdered by Voldie? Lucius pawned off a Horcrux because he thought Voldie had gone belly up and couldn't be arsed to investigate, he screwed up at the Ministry, Draco screwed up and couldn't do his duty, and Narcissa isn't a Death Eater. After they lost their social standing, what value did they have that made them worth keeping? That's a good question, but one that's answered in HBP. Voldemort assigned killing Dumbeldore to Malfoy because he knew it would punish Lucius. Narcissa even begged Snape for help at the beginning for this reason. So basically what HH said.
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Post by makoeyes on Apr 25, 2012 18:39:15 GMT -8
Not really a contradiction, but one that's been bothering me as I re-read the series to go along with Pottermore.
Why didn't Dumbledore ever stop Snape from bullying his students?
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