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[featherxquill]

Just a random thought for the evening, half formed but intriguing.

I'm not sure about this, so feel free to disagree/discuss this with me, but there are a lot of times during penseive memories in HBP that we are given references about how attractive Tom Riddle is.

Now, we assume that the memories that we are seeing came from the person who wasn't Voldemort, in each memory.

But I'm curious. What if they were not.

What if they came from someone else who was present. Someone who found Tom Riddle attractive?

I must admit even when I was reading I found the lack of McGonagall memories conspicuous.

When did she register as an animagus? What if the memories came not from the people in them, but from a silver and black tabby cat that happened to be present?

Just thoughts. Feel free to agree or rebutt.

Comments

[moon-very-thin.livejournal.com]

It's a nice idea. Personally I found the lack of Minerva memories scadalous and hoped one of them might be hers, but I'm pretty sure the origins of all of them are accounted form

The first can't be Minerva's as it takes place before she was born. The second Albus expressly tells us is his own.The third we know comes from Slughorn. The fourth Dumbledore tells Harry he got from Smith's House elf (and why would Minerva be there anyway?)

The fifth is Tom's interview with Headmaster Dumbledore. Due to Rowling spectacularly messed up timeline this would seem to have happened several years before Minerva started teaching (though possibly the interview, Minerva's coming to teach, and Dumbledore's being made headmaster all happened in the same year.)

I do wish that Minerva's being a contemporary of Riddle's at school would be addressed though. For example, would Minerva have been in the Slug Club with him?

I see where you're going with the notion of the 'attractive Tom' point of view in the memories, but I beieve JKR has stated that memories in the pensieve are exact reproductions, not clouded by personal bias. So I tihnk every observation of the hawtness of Tom actually comes from Harry's own personal opinions. (Hur hur)

Would be nice to be able to think at least one of 'em was hers though...