The soul releasing seems easy enough to fake, as does Hermione’s comment to the Patronus. Hermione being under an invisibiliy cloak near fake-Hermione would do for the Patronus taking Harry to her(though screaming mid-combat would be quite dangerous, even invisible).
The hardest part would be creating a fake Hermione sufficiently well to convince both the troll and Harry. Do we know of any magic sufficient to that task? Copying the form can be done, as was done with the Azkaban breakout, but the blood and the talking both seem outside the capabilities of that spell.
Here’s a miserable plot possibility. Hermione was concealed, something went wrong, and the feeling of her mind going past was because a number of other things happened, and the concealed Hermione was killed.
Neutral plot possibility: usually, dying minds aren’t felt in the wizarding world. Something unusual was going on, and I don’t know what it was.
Here’s a miserable plot possibility. Hermione was concealed, something went wrong, and the feeling of her mind going past was because a number of other things happened, and the concealed Hermione was killed.
This seems unlikely. This would end up sounding a lot like “don’t tamper with fate”. That sort of thing is very common in time travel stories where someone tries to save someone’s life, but it has a massively anti-transhumanist, pro-deathist vibe. I doubt Eliezer would do it.
I’m assuming that Hermione is going to be brought back somehow, so the implication isn’t that you can’t fight fate, it’s that the world has wildly complicated plot twists.
Neutral plot possibility: usually, dying minds aren’t felt in the wizarding world. Something unusual was going on, and I don’t know what it was.
This seems unlikely. There was a mention about ghosts being caused by “the burst of magic that accompanied the violent death of a wizard” (or something along those lines—I don’t feel like looking up the exact quote right now.)
Neutral plot possibility: usually, dying minds aren’t felt in the wizarding world. Something unusual was going on, and I don’t know what it was.
Thank you for saying this. I’ve been hoping someone would make note of this. Don’t people remember the fight with the bullies in ch 73?
Three blasts of brilliance slammed into Susan at once, she had her wand raised as though she could counter them and there was a white flash as the hexes struck the magical wood, but then Susan’s legs convulsed and sent her flying into a corridor wall. Her head hit with a strange cracking sound, and then Susan fell down and lay motionless with her head at an odd-seeming angle, her wand still clutched in one outstretched hand.
There was a moment of frozen silence.
Parvati scrambled over to where Susan lay, pressed a thumb over the pulse point on Susan’s wrist, and then—then slowly, tremblingly, Parvati rose to her feet, her eyes huge -
“Vitalis revelio,” said Lee just as Parvati opened her mouth, and Susan’s body was surrounded by a warm red glow. Now the seventh-year boy really was grinning. “Probably just a broken collarbone, I’d say. Nice try, though.”
“Merlin, they are tricky,” said Jugson.
“You had me going for a second there, dearies.”
If the mad burst of intellect and magic and etc. was standard, they wouldn’t have been able to fake it for even a second.
Now, I’m not necessarily saying that the feeling was only because of something fishy going on. I’m just saying that it cannot be the standard.
The soul releasing seems easy enough to fake, as does Hermione’s comment to the Patronus. Hermione being under an invisibiliy cloak near fake-Hermione would do for the Patronus taking Harry to her(though screaming mid-combat would be quite dangerous, even invisible).
The hardest part would be creating a fake Hermione sufficiently well to convince both the troll and Harry. Do we know of any magic sufficient to that task? Copying the form can be done, as was done with the Azkaban breakout, but the blood and the talking both seem outside the capabilities of that spell.
It’s not obvious to me how to fake the soul releasing. It was perceived by the magic-sense, not just with the muggle senses.
Here’s a miserable plot possibility. Hermione was concealed, something went wrong, and the feeling of her mind going past was because a number of other things happened, and the concealed Hermione was killed.
Neutral plot possibility: usually, dying minds aren’t felt in the wizarding world. Something unusual was going on, and I don’t know what it was.
This seems unlikely. This would end up sounding a lot like “don’t tamper with fate”. That sort of thing is very common in time travel stories where someone tries to save someone’s life, but it has a massively anti-transhumanist, pro-deathist vibe. I doubt Eliezer would do it.
I’m assuming that Hermione is going to be brought back somehow, so the implication isn’t that you can’t fight fate, it’s that the world has wildly complicated plot twists.
This seems unlikely. There was a mention about ghosts being caused by “the burst of magic that accompanied the violent death of a wizard” (or something along those lines—I don’t feel like looking up the exact quote right now.)
Thank you for saying this. I’ve been hoping someone would make note of this. Don’t people remember the fight with the bullies in ch 73?
If the mad burst of intellect and magic and etc. was standard, they wouldn’t have been able to fake it for even a second.
Now, I’m not necessarily saying that the feeling was only because of something fishy going on. I’m just saying that it cannot be the standard.