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October 24th, 2009
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| I give you, first of all, The Secret Riddle: Albus's Collusion in Tom's Dirty Secret. One of her little gems here is to create an apparent "contradiction" in two of Dumbledore's statements: Who else realized the dread Lord Voldemort to be the former brilliant, charming Tom Riddle? Well, we have two statements by Albus on this, and they are diametrically opposed—in fact, incompatible. In HBP, Dumbledore stated, “I have not been able to find many memories of Riddle at Hogwarts…. Few who knew him then are prepared to talk about him: they are too terrified. What I know, I found out after he had left Hogwarts, after much painstaking effort, after tracing those few who could be tricked into speaking….” She's being disingenuous, and starting with the usual Snapefen premise of going OH THOSE HORRIBLE GRYFFINDORS YOU CAN'T BELIEVE THEM AT ALL. I hate to use the high school thing, but honestly? How many people in your high school did you know outside of your grade/form/year cohort? Me, I could name maybe five people offhand. Even within my grade I only maybe really knew a few people; the rest were acquaintances whose names I knew, but not much more. I couldn't have told you who was the creeper who felt up girls at parties. I couldn't have told you who was the guy with the crazy cakes attraction to weird weaponry. So if, years later, one of the folks I might have known in high school changed his name and became a killer, I would have had to be explicitly told of that connection, especially if I didn't remember his or her facial appearance very well. And that's not even taking into account deliberate physical changes, which Voldemort did undertake. So there really isn't any contradiction. In a small wizarding world the chances of (1) people satisfying the above criteria of having intimately been acquainted with Tom Riddle well enough to know of his little pet name for himself, and (2) still being alive and accessible to Dumbledore umpteen years later are pretty damn small. I'd say maybe ten people at most. So it's no wonder that (a) those who are still alive (like oh, say, Slughorn), and (b) remembered young Tom back then would have reluctantly profferred information while the remainder of those who might have known Tom Riddle (like Hagrid) were missing a key piece of information: they were not in his intimate inner circle of Slytherins and never knew of his private name for himself. There's probably more holes to poke in that argumentation. On to the next entry; I provide for you A response to Marionros's speculations on Lucius in CoS. Never mind the fact that taking ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} marionros seriously at all is a bit odd.But that doesn't stop terri_testing from doing a little more Dumbledore bashing (ONLY SLYTHERINS CAN TRULY EXPLAIN OTHER SLYTHERINS is the unstated subtext it seems). She also does the usual ooh-I-can-copy-The-Red-Hen's-style (and even mentions Jodel/Red Hen so there's some double lulz there), which kind of ruins the meta. It's too bad since it actiually is an interesting explanation for what it takes to make a house-elf want to disobey his/her master.I suppose har articles aren't too facepalm-worthy at the moment, but I think this picture is a fine riposte to terri_testing. :PETA: Even more pompous bullshit here: Accessory after the Fact: Albus and the Invention of Lord Voldemort and oh look for the lulz she has another Pride and Prejudice reference with, of course, that Mr. Darcy featuring prominently. God I could just roll my eyes forever at this. (and ooh look, oryx_leucoryx fails by referring to a fan fic by duj as 'proof' of whatever point she was making.)ETA2: marionros won't shut up about narcissism. Please excuse me while I facepalm. |
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