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Cindy got all excited about the Gleam again, and in what seemed to be an attempt to lure the MDDT out of retirement *g*, she quoted Eric Oppen, who once wrote:
Could one of the side-effects of "flesh of the servant, willingly(?) given" in the ritual to re-body-ize Voldemort be to give _Wormtail_ some sort of power over Voldemort?
Think about it...part of Wormtail is now a big component in Voldemort's new body. We've already seen that the magical "law of similarity" applies in the Wizard World, what with HP's and V's wands being unable to fight each other because they each contain a feather from the tail of the same phoenix. Might this not apply even more strongly between V-mort and W-tail?
You know, if I were Voldemort, I'd be a little worried about that, sure. (In fact, if you buy into the MAGIC DISHWASHER theory, then Voldemort ought to be really worried about that!) Sympathetic magic does cut both ways, after all.
But if I were Voldemort, I'd be even more worried about that hand.
Because sympathetic magic does cut both ways. After all.
See, people are always stressing about the damage that Wormtail's "silver" hand might do to Lupin, but as I read it, the thing isn't really made out of silver at all. It's just silver in color. It's silvery.
In fact, it seems to me to be formed out of that Special Silvery Wizarding Soul Stuff (tm). You know, the stuff that's in Dumbledore's Pensieve? The stuff that forms the sigil that Dumbledore shoots into the air to summon Hagrid in GoF? The stuff that actually forms ones patronus?
Yeah. That stuff.
Now, I'm not altogether sure what that stuff is. But I don't think that it's exactly impersonal stuff, if you know what I mean. It seems to me that whenever we see the silvery stuff show up, it's always in relation to something rather spiritual, something deeply intrinsic to the wizard himself.
I don't think that having a right hand gifted to you by an evil dark wizard and formed from his very own Special Silvery Wizarding Soul Stuff (tm) is at all good news, spiritually speaking. Especially when you willingly sacrificed your own right hand to bring said evil dark wizard back to power. I'd say that you're looking at some seriously bad symbolical mojo when you are then granted such a thing as a reward, when that has become your right hand. I don't think that silvery hand can possibly be good for the state of Wormtail's soul.
But I think that in the end, it just might prove even worse for Voldemort's health.
—Elkins
Posted to HPfGU by Elkins on January 25, 2003 1:11 AM
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