Hi. Just found HPMoR and read it all, and please forgive me if anyone had raised this before in the thousands upon thousands of comments that I haven’t taken the time to read...
I think I’ve figured out some Important Things that are going on here.
1) How harry survived the Killing Curse.
Right after the Incident With the Fake Summoning Ritual, we learned about a reference class of magic in which the practitioner first specifies a thing they are willing to sacrifice, and then a thing they expect to receive in exchange.
Reviewing Harry’s memory of his mother’s death in light of this, I realized that Lily stated that she was willing to offer her life in exchange for Harry’s safety, and VOLDEMORT AGREED!
2)WTF is Quirrelmort doing? It seems like he is befriending Harry and not trying to kill him.
Rational!Voldemort is very interested in space travel and wants to visit other worlds. He placed his horcrux aboard the Pioneer probe not to insure it could never be found and destroyed, but as part of a plan to move his consciousness to other worlds. When he heard of Trelawney’s prophesy, R!V went to mark Harry as his equal so that Harry could eventually destroy all but a remnant of him, using a power that R!V knows not, resulting in their two souls not being in the same world.
I don’t understand why he needs Bellatrix for this, but I think he is being honest about having given up on being Dark Lord and wanting Harry to take that role. I think he really likes Harry, and genuinely sees them as having a lot in common, almost like Harry is his surrogate son.
Also, he supported Harry’s decision not to reveal the secrets of the True Patronus because he NEEDS Harry to have/use a power that he himself knows not, and also doesn’t want Dumbledore to have it.
Re: Bellatrix. In canon Quirrel is a temporary stopping place for Voldemort’s spirit until he can incarnate in a new body. One of the ways to do this is a ritual that requires the parts mentioned in HPMOR, eg a servant, an enemy, an ancestor etc. Bellatrix is his best servant.
Maybe. He’d have to be content to spend an indefinite but probably very long span of time as whatever goes into a Horcrux in this continuity, without any well-defined hope of resurrection.
It’s a cool idea, but Quirrell’s not the type to send his soul (for lack of a better word) to another planet just because it’s a cool idea. Unfortunately we don’t know much about how well a Horcrux can perceive or influence its surroundings, which is somewhat important in this context. He might be trying to cast a light into the future, cryonics-style, but that seems like a long shot by my measure of Quirrell; he knows something of Muggle science but he’s probably not hip to obscure, relatively recent ideas.
He’s using the Pioneer probe as the ultimate safe deposit box. I don’t think we have enough evidence to say he’s looking for anything more dramatic than that.
Actually, it has occurred to me that maybe he doesn’t need his body back, because he never lost it. He’s not wearing a turban to cover two-facedness, and Harry’s “recovered” memory from his infancy may have been the result of a false memory charm. In this continuity, can we really be sure that Quirrel is a separate person that Voldie is using, or maybe he is just Voldie in disguise?
Also in canon, the servant chosen was Pettigrew. HPMoR is at least feinting towards Bellatrix as a much more obvious choice at least partially as a commentary on how Pettigrew’s a dumb choice.
to be fair, in canon breaking out of Azkaban involved secret animagus status (Until Voldie was back in life and able to control dementors). In HPMOR it involved Harry’s special abilities, cloak of true invisibility, etc. etc. Pettigrew still seems like a dumb choice but
Hi. Just found HPMoR and read it all, and please forgive me if anyone had raised this before in the thousands upon thousands of comments that I haven’t taken the time to read...
I think I’ve figured out some Important Things that are going on here.
1) How harry survived the Killing Curse.
Right after the Incident With the Fake Summoning Ritual, we learned about a reference class of magic in which the practitioner first specifies a thing they are willing to sacrifice, and then a thing they expect to receive in exchange. Reviewing Harry’s memory of his mother’s death in light of this, I realized that Lily stated that she was willing to offer her life in exchange for Harry’s safety, and VOLDEMORT AGREED!
2)WTF is Quirrelmort doing? It seems like he is befriending Harry and not trying to kill him.
Rational!Voldemort is very interested in space travel and wants to visit other worlds. He placed his horcrux aboard the Pioneer probe not to insure it could never be found and destroyed, but as part of a plan to move his consciousness to other worlds. When he heard of Trelawney’s prophesy, R!V went to mark Harry as his equal so that Harry could eventually destroy all but a remnant of him, using a power that R!V knows not, resulting in their two souls not being in the same world.
I don’t understand why he needs Bellatrix for this, but I think he is being honest about having given up on being Dark Lord and wanting Harry to take that role. I think he really likes Harry, and genuinely sees them as having a lot in common, almost like Harry is his surrogate son.
Also, he supported Harry’s decision not to reveal the secrets of the True Patronus because he NEEDS Harry to have/use a power that he himself knows not, and also doesn’t want Dumbledore to have it.
Re: Bellatrix. In canon Quirrel is a temporary stopping place for Voldemort’s spirit until he can incarnate in a new body. One of the ways to do this is a ritual that requires the parts mentioned in HPMOR, eg a servant, an enemy, an ancestor etc. Bellatrix is his best servant.
But, if his plan is that his soul be sent to another world, he does not need his body back, does he?
Maybe. He’d have to be content to spend an indefinite but probably very long span of time as whatever goes into a Horcrux in this continuity, without any well-defined hope of resurrection.
It’s a cool idea, but Quirrell’s not the type to send his soul (for lack of a better word) to another planet just because it’s a cool idea. Unfortunately we don’t know much about how well a Horcrux can perceive or influence its surroundings, which is somewhat important in this context. He might be trying to cast a light into the future, cryonics-style, but that seems like a long shot by my measure of Quirrell; he knows something of Muggle science but he’s probably not hip to obscure, relatively recent ideas.
He’s using the Pioneer probe as the ultimate safe deposit box. I don’t think we have enough evidence to say he’s looking for anything more dramatic than that.
Actually, it has occurred to me that maybe he doesn’t need his body back, because he never lost it. He’s not wearing a turban to cover two-facedness, and Harry’s “recovered” memory from his infancy may have been the result of a false memory charm. In this continuity, can we really be sure that Quirrel is a separate person that Voldie is using, or maybe he is just Voldie in disguise?
Also in canon, the servant chosen was Pettigrew. HPMoR is at least feinting towards Bellatrix as a much more obvious choice at least partially as a commentary on how Pettigrew’s a dumb choice.
to be fair, in canon breaking out of Azkaban involved secret animagus status (Until Voldie was back in life and able to control dementors). In HPMOR it involved Harry’s special abilities, cloak of true invisibility, etc. etc. Pettigrew still seems like a dumb choice but