Very much to my surprise this essay needed almost no reworking. Apart from the foreclosing of one outside possibility raised in it (pointed out by someone else), nothing in DHs contradicts any of my observations of the story’s development up to the point that the situation of Harry, Snape and the Occlumency lessons arose.

The underlying business of the connection between Tom and Harry was certainly raised again in DHs, but under sufficiently different circumstances that I think it would be better to examine it separately, somewhere else.

The Occlumency lessons, and the reason behind them, however, were utterly central to the action in OotP. They were the only real point at which Harry was connected to what was really going on that year.

Upon my first rereading of HP and the Order of the Phoenix I had no alternative but to suspect that the whole Pensieve incident was a deliberate set-up.

Nothing in HBP convinced me otherwise. (And even DHs hasn’t sunk this reading altogether.) What is more, I began to pick up indications that I might really be onto something, although they could still have all turned out to be hallucinations. And even if not, they might not add up to what I suspected they did.

But, I couldn’t believe that particular demonstration had anything whatsoever to do with Snape’s worst memory.

Of course, in OotP we did not yet know about the additional twist to that incident, namely that James was using Severus’s own magic against him, “giving him a dose of his own medicine”, which would have upped the odds of the incident ranking closer to the top of Snape’s little list. And I suppose it is just possible that public humiliation is the worst thing that Snape could conceive of ever happening to him. He is extremely jealous of his dignity, after all.

— But if that is the case, and that was the worst thing to have ever happened to him, I’d suggest a major scaling-back of one’s general expectations of his actual involvement with the Death Eaters. Maybe he was just off in a lab somewhere brewing illegal potions. But I’d hate to bet the farm on it.

At that point we also didn’t have any hint of the alleged Snape+Lily childhood friendship. In fact we got so little hint of anything of that nature that by this time I frankly don’t believe it even was a real friendship. Not on Lily’s side, at least.

And, furthermore, by the time DHs was pending, I also thought that John Granger might be onto something in a theory that he had posted on his blog earlier in the year.

Just the prompt of the title of his posting (Tom Riddle’s Scar-O-Vision)was enough to nudge me. Although perhaps in a different direction from the one John took.

But, even post-DHs and even on further consideration, the whole Occlumency lesson sequence still feels like something of a deliberate set-up. The only thing I still cannot see any clue to was how Montegue managed to turn up so very fortuitously in order to facilitate it.

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But, insofar as it regards Montegue; even leaving the extraordinary convenience to Professor Snape in the timing of Montegue’s miraculous reappearance out of the equation altogether, there is still something decidedly off about Montegue’s return. In fact, about Montegue’s whole adventure.

The twins admitted (to their friends, not to the staff) stuffing him headfirst into a vanishing cabinet when he tried to deduct some House points from them, and he eventually shows up — a day or two later — stuck in a toilet.

Now, getting Montegue stuck in a toilet is exactly in the Weasley twins’ style — but if they had known that would be the result you can be sure that they would have been crowing about it! And they weren’t.

While we are at it; we never hear of the twins coming up against any particular consequences for having stuffed a fellow student into a vanishing cabinet, either. And we ought to have.

Montegue turns up “confused”. Evidently we are supposed to believe that he is too confused to say what happened to him, or who was responsible. And that he remains too confused to give any information to the end of the year.

Just from being stuck in a cabinet? And how did he get from the cabinet to the toilet? Something about this story simply does not add up. And we’d all seen something along the lines of this kind of damage before. More than once over the course of the series, In fact in this same book, most recently just the previous week. More to the point, we’ve known since the end of CoS (and got a hefty reminder just this last Christmas break) about the kind of damage an inexpert Obliviate can do. This kid has clearly been Obliviated. Or at least so I thought until the end of HBP. (Who knows, maybe the twins did Obliviate him, before they stuffed him into the box. Or Confunded him.)

I went into HBP determined to watch for anything that might shed some light on this issue. And to do the same afterwards in Book 7, if it didn’t show up in Book 6. Nothing came up in either book that would clarify it.

But the explanation (or lack of it) that Rowling finally gave us raises far more questions than it answers. I’m not sure that I can believe her explanation. It just doesn’t make sense. And it contradicts everything she’s told us about Apparation and Hogwarts over the entire series.

According to Rowling’s explanation; Montegue, it now seems, was not Obliviated, after all, nor, apparently was he really even confused. He was simply not talking.

Or at least he was not talking whenever anyone in any kind of position of authority was asking him questions. Or, perhaps he was just not talking when anyone who might have let the story out where it could get back to Harry was listening.

But, evidently, as soon as everyone’s backs were turned, and Montegue was safely on the London-bound Hogwarts Express he couldn’t wait to share the whole story with a group of his fellow Slytherins.

Excuse me? What is the motivation here? Why didn’t he nail the twins for having entrapped him. They were still in school when he made his reappearance. They trapped him in a cabinet long enough for him to have come to physical harm (unless he was really good at summoning food and water into his prison). By the time he escaped was he delirious from dehydration? Is that why he was “confused”?

And why is his story not more widely known if he told it to a group? Even if the full implications of the story he told, he — and most of his audience —was evidently not aware of. Were they mostly fellow 7th-years who wouldn’t be back either?

And if he would tell a group — and apparently he did tell a group, for Draco states that “everyone” thought it was a really good story — why did he not tell the authorities? And why did he not tell the authorities, immediately?

So why? Not for the twins’s sake, certainly. Montegue could have gotten the Weasley twins into real trouble if he’d spoken up. Particularly with Umbridge in control of the school. And by the time he went into that cabinet Umbridge was already in charge. Under the circumstances, why would he not do it? (Query: Montegue was stated as being a 7th year. He sat his NEWTs in that condition?)

No, I’m sorry, this does not hang together at all. If this was Montegue’s own decision, it is “idiot plot” behavior in spades. And not the only piece of such we’ve been handed either. I now suspect that he did tell someone in authority. He told Snape. Who advised him to keep it under his hat. It really makes much more sense to believe Montegue was warned off from speaking of the matter, by someone whom he did not especially want to cross. Somebody like his own Head of House.

Even better, Montegue claimed to have finally escaped from the cabinet by Apparating out of it, and getting himself stuck in the toilet in Hogwarts. Excuse me, but how many times have we been told that you cannot Apparate in or out of Hogwarts? And if you can Apparate from place to place inside Hogwarts, why has this not been discovered and rediscovered by any clever 6th or 7th year with an Apparation license from time immemorial?

And Rowling clearly expects us to just swallow this down and not ask questions. Sorry, but I’m just not that unobservant. Or that forgetful. Maybe this is a clue. To what, I can’t even imagine. Maybe a clue that Montegue — or Malfoy — or Rowling — was just plain lying. About something anyway.

Post-HBP, it becomes fairly easy to see Snape’s fine italic hand in Montegue’s refusal to say anything about the matter until he boarded the Hogwarts Express for his last ride home to London. Which is when Draco got hold of it.

Snape would not have wanted that story spread around the school.

I now suspect that Snape did convince Montegue to confide in him after he extracted Montegue from the toilet, because it now really does seem to be outside any kind of probability for Albus not to have known that something was up with the lacquer cabinet from a very early point in year 6. I now think that Snape tipped him off to the fact that the (damaged) cabinet had figured in Montegue’s disappearance as soon as Albus returned to the school in the aftermath of Umbridge’s adventure with the Centaurs and Harry’s raid on the DoM. If my suspicions of the cabinets’ original ownership is anything like correct, Phineas Nigellus could probably have also confirmed the purpose of those cabinets.

And Snape, recognizing that the information was a potentially dangerous, security breech would have advised/warned Montegue to not spread the story around. And he didn’t.

Until he boarded the Hogwarts Express.

None of which, however, advances any suggestion explaining the timing of the return from that particular adventure. I’m still completely at sea regarding that.

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As for Professor Snape and the business with the Pensieve, that’s a trickier knot to unravel. First you have to find the right end of the thread.

Snape does not appear to have been under suspicion by either of his “principals” during Book 5, but he had to be well aware that he was walking the razor’s edge. And you would expect that being instructed to teach Harry Occlumency must have put Snape into an intolerable position, vis-a-vis his relationship with Voldemort. There appears to have been more going on at that end of the equation than Dumbledore is expected to have been aware of, regardless of whose side Snape was on. Or so one would think.

But, then again, appearances tend to be deceiving, and Albus was very good at encouraging people to lead themselves up the garden path.

At first glance, his order that Snape teach Harry Occlumency seems to have been yet another of Dumbledore’s little mistakes, although given Dumbledore’s wariness about making eye contact with Harry since long before he claims to have believed that Riddle was aware of their mutual connection, it is easy enough to see one good reason why he might have given that order. The longer he could keep Voldemort distracted and occupied by the red herring of the record of the Trelawney Prophecy, the better. And if Tom was nodding in and out of Harry’s head all year, Albus could hardly teach him the skill himself without taking too big a risk of compromising his bluff.

But Albus wouldn’t look Harry in the eye all the way back as early as the disciplinary hearing in the middle of August. He later claims to have seen a shadow of Tom looking out of Harry’s eyes off and on all through the year, not just after Christmas. Hold that thought.

Harry, with his open connection to Voldemort, appears to have been the weak link in Dumbledore’s whole plan. Dumbledore tacitly claims to have been reluctant to teach Harry Occlumency himself lest he inadvertently let Tom get a glimpse of the Prophesy scam.

And I think that Albus was probably right about it, too. Because Harry almost always managed to have some sort of a “Tom” reaction, just about every time he was put in the same room as Albus over the course of year 5. Even if it was just a spurt of annoyance. Since blooming when had we ever seen Harry getting a knee-jerk reaction of annoyance at Albus?

But he sure was getting them over the course of OotP.

So did Tom know about the Occlumency lessons? Had Snape told him?

Snape, rather a lot like Dumbledore, just isn’t the sort of person who tells anyone everything he knows. (Especially if he got burnt that way in his 1st year at Hogwarts, as I have speculated elsewhere.) But I really can’t see any way in which he won’t have told Tom that he was going to be teaching the Potter brat Occlumency. After all, if Tom was nodding in and out of the kid’s head, there was every chance that he was going to find it out anyway. So Snape’s involvement in that project had to be accounted for from the outset.

Which brings up one of the truisms mentioned in the essay regarding Snape and his spying activities; Dumbledore has to have been telling Snape what he needed to know in order for him to take steps to protect himself. And he would have known that in order to protect himself, in this instance he was going to have to inform Tom, since the chances of Tom finding it out anyway were just way too high to try to sneak the whole project past him.

So, Tom knew, and Albus knew that Tom knew.

Even if you weren’t convinced he was a White Hat, Snape, to the best of Dumbledore’s understanding, was his own double agent. He must have mentioned the possibility to Snape that Riddle might choose to make an unscheduled appearance during these sessions. Which I am forced, upon consideration, to contend was, in fact, the case.

Because, it now appears to me that Dumbledore was absolutely right in his reservations regarding Harry, and eventually Lord Voldemort had indeed come along for the ride. Probably not only once, either, but with some frequency.

Harry tells us later that those lessons made his scar hurt. Throughout the whole series, Harry’s scar has only hurt when Voldemort was involved.

But, if I am reading the situation correctly, Voldemort must have figured out how to walk through Harry’s head without immediately setting the scar off at some point.

Instead, his intrusions tended to set off an attack of CAPSLOCKS!

Well, the minute he sealed off the connection from his end the Capslocks effectively stopped, didn’t they?

But if the connection worked for Voldemort the way it worked for Harry in OotP (and in GoF), Voldemort had no access to Harry’s actual thoughts. Only to his feelings, and to his immediate environment. If it worked for him as it worked for Harry then, he could hear and see what Harry was hearing and seeing. He knew how Harry felt about it, but he didn’t know what he actually thought.

Or did he? Voldemort is a whole league better at this kind of thing than Harry. And even Harry was able to register Tom’s thoughts in DHs (for no properly explained reason, other than that it has to have been connected with whatever caused Harry’s holly wand to go off on autopilot during the escape from the Dursleys’ house).

But, still, I think that at that point in the series Tom wasn’t able to get into Harry’s mind. Just his head.

Which brings us to the business with the Pensieve.

We can no longer depend upon the reading that Snape was merely off-loading memories in order to keep them out of Harry’s way. He probably didn’t give a damn about the possibility that Harry might get a peek inside his head during a lesson (or think very highly of the possibility that the boy might manage to, either). If he was worried about Harry doing that, the memories were safer where they were originally.

At first glance, it is easy to assume that he might have been off-loading memories that he couldn’t afford to show to Voldemort. Which, right there, gives us a major paradigm shift in our interpretation of just what was really going on during that series of Occlumancy lessons.

But the paradigm continues to shift. Because that reading appears to be faulty as well.

We’ve since had some pretty clear indications that loading a memory into a Pensieve (or a bottle) doesn’t remove it from your own head. Slughorn still had the original memory of that discussion with Riddle after he off-loaded a copy to tamper with. Albus still knew which memory of his own he was showing Harry when he picked up a bottle, from a collection of bottles, and dumped it into the Pensieve. For that matter, I’ll bet Voldemort remembers perfectly well the day he made a fishing expedition to find out what Dippett was going to do about the death of a student, and then framed Hagrid. Putting the memory into the Diary (which functioned exactly like a Pensieve) didn’t eradicate it from his own memory.

Let alone whether or not he recalls exactly how he murdered his father and grandparents and shared the memory of doing it with Morfin. It really does appear that the only thing that loading a memory — or more properly, a copy of a memory — into a Pensieve, or other vessel does is to make it easier to examine it, or to share it with someone else.

So already we have ample indication that there was something more going on with those lessons than Harry was aware of.

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At the beginning of the enterprise Snape couldn’t have anticipated just how very poor Harry’s performance would be. Or could be led to be. We were given a strong impression that Harry’s performance steadily degenerated throughout the entire Spring term. And as long as Harry was making such a miserable show of the proceedings, Snape hadn’t any real reason to push the issue in the face of Dumbledore’s supposed orders. In fact, he may have even gotten a mean satisfaction at having the boy at his mercy and was perfectly willing to string the situation out as long as necessary. Particularly with Tom looking on. He could then smugly, and truthfully, inform both his masters that the boy “wasn’t trying”. But once Harry turned the tables on him towards the end of March, the edge that Snape was walking became just too precarious.

And way too suspicious, also. What the hell was going on there?

If you reread the relevant sequence of Harry’s penultimate Occlumency lesson, in the chapter ‘Seen and Unforeseen’, you will notice that it was only in that particular session — in which Snape had finally uncovered the Rookwood vision — that Harry, after yet another failed attempt to block Snape’s intrusion into his mind, picked himself up off the floor, and after listening to Snape’s taunting harangue about it not being Harry’s job to find out what the Dark Lord was doing, Harry suddenly, out of the blue, challenged Snape about being Dumbledore’s spy. Which Snape admitted, with a smirk.

Immediately afterwards, when the session resumed, Harry’s perception was suddenly that, yes, he could see the Dementors converging on him from his own memory — but that he could still see Snape standing in front of him muttering under his breath. Gradually the Dementors faded out, Snape came back into focus, and only *then* did Harry raise his wand and cast the Protego shielding charm, which drove through Snape’s Occlumency shield and some way into Snape’s own early memories.

Now, Snape’s Occlumency shield may have had to be lowered somewhat in order for him to attack Harry’s mind, that may be why Dumbledore wasn’t going to get involved in the lessons himself. But my point here is that Harry clearly didn’t do anything to bring this result about.

From where he was standing, it just happened. Ergo; it is not beyond the realm of possibility that either Snape’s retreat was deliberate, or that someone other than Harry was pushing back Snape’s attempt to invade his thoughts. If it wasn’t Snape’s doing, and it wasn’t Harry’s, who does that leave?

And, suggestively enough, as soon as Snape throws Harry out of his own head, he, white-faced, goes and fiddles with the Pensieve as if to be sure the memories he stored in it were still there. i.e., Drawing attention to them.

It might also be significant that when Snape recovered his composure and they resumed the session Harry’s mind went immediately to the hall of doors. And for the first time, one of the doors opened.

If it weren’t for that Protego charm, I’d be convinced that maybe this sequence WAS all Snape’s doing. That maybe this whole sequence was Snape’s first attempt at the gambit to throw Harry out of his office. Now that he’d found the Rookwood vision, Snape could inform Albus that he was correct in his guess as to what the Dark Lord was “up to”.

There is every reason to suspect that, with Lucius Malfoy’s commendation behind him, Snape had been at least to some degree in Umbridge’s confidence that year, (the Inquisitorial Squad was composed entirely of students from his own House, after all) and that he may have known that it was Umbridge’s intention to sack Trelawney that very evening, and that this would raise enough of an uproar to give him an excuse to leave Potter alone in the room with the Pensieve, and a set of hand-picked memories, especially selected just for him.

The ploy of pulling Potter into his own memories — memories which cast himself very much in the same role that Harry had played among the Dursleys — knowledge with which Snape was entirely familiar by that time — would have made for a very good lead-in to a trip into that Pensieve and a particularly... enlightening evening for young Potter.

But that Protego charm was not Snape’s doing. I don’t know what prompted it.

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For that matter, until HBP came out, it looked as if there was another potential booby trap involved in this little exercise, and Snape may have been aware of that one as well. From what we’ve seen in both GoF and OotP, while Harry clearly knows what a Pensieve is, he didn’t seem to know how to use one properly.

To that point in the series, it had appeared to me that when a Pensieve is used the way it is intended to be used, or, at least as Dumbledore had always been seen to use it, one places one’s own memories into the Pensieve and stirs them with one’s wand and the memory rises up out of the Pensieve and replays itself *exactly as it played out* in real life.

When one uses a Pensieve improperly, as Harry had always used it, someone else puts their memories into the Pensieve, you shove your face into the bowl like a dog, and mentally wander off into their experience — which clearly contains more than just their own vantage point, in fact it seems to record everything within a specific (and as yet unstated) radius around that person — until the owner of the Pensieve comes along and hauls you out of it.

Leading me to suspect that someday Harry was going to wander off in a Pensieve and not be able to find his way back.

Well, it now seems that this interpretation was seriously off. Both techniques are valid usages. But the first enables the user to chose what part of the memory is on view, and to exert far greater control over what information is actually conveyed, thereby concealing part of the truth.

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For that matter, until HBP came out, it looked as if there was another potential booby trap involved in this little exercise, and that Snape may have been aware of that one as well. From what we’d seen in both GoF and OotP, while Harry clearly knows what a Pensieve is, he didn’t seem to know how to use one properly.

To that point in the series, it had appeared that when a Pensieve is used the way it is intended to be used, or, at least as Dumbledore had always been seen to use it, one places the memories into the Pensieve and stirs them with one’s wand and the memory rises up out of the Pensieve and replays itself *exactly as it played out* in real life.

When one uses a Pensieve improperly, as Harry had always used it, someone else puts their memories into the Pensieve, you shove your face into the bowl like a dog, and mentally wander off into their experience — which clearly contains more than just their own vantage point, in fact it seems to record everything within a specific (and as yet unstated) radius around that person — until the owner of the Pensieve comes along and hauls you out of it.

Leading me to suspect that someday Harry was going to wander off in a Pensieve and not be able to find his way back.

Well, it now seems that this reading was seriously off-target. Both techniques are valid methods to use a Pensieve. But the first enables the user to chose what part of the memory is on view, and to exert far greater control over what information is actually conveyed, thereby concealing part of the truth.

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But, returning to the penultimate Occlumency session, we were handed yet another piece of screwiness. While Harry undoubtedly knew at least one Shield charm which causes a rebound of an attacking spell upon the attacker — for he taught it to the DA — we didn’t know going into this sequence that the one Harry knew was in fact the Protego charm. It was suddenly very unlike Rowling’s usual methods of exposition to spring the use of a new spell on us in the course of the story unless that piece of magic had been previously introduced *by name*. Sometimes anything up to a couple of books earlier.

I guess we ought to have taken this as a warning that she was changing the rules on us. But at the time it just seemed a bit of possibly relevant screwiness.

For Harry to — without even consciously making a choice in the matter — suddenly raise his wand and cast Protego, especially when he has done nothing but stand there, like a lump, until the memory of the Dementors had already faded out, and Snape’s Legilimency attack had already been successfully resisted; to cast Protego, and then, and only after the fact, and by default, to have Snape identify Protego as the reflecting Shield charm, is all of a piece with the extra-thick layer of murkiness and confusion with which Rowling has shrouded the whole issue of those Occlumency Lessons.

Particularly since there is no apparent reason for her not to have already given us the name of the spell back when Harry was teaching it to the DA. And that made me very uneasy. It’s almost as if Rowling intended for us to be suspicious of this suddenly unfamiliar piece of magic despite the “reasonable explanation” she waves under our noses immediately afterwards.

Or that, as we have found is typical in this series, she intended to pull this particular trick again. (Boy howdy.)

I also suspect that Ron may have also gotten it at least partially right; Snape was not helping Harry to improve at this skill, even if Harry’s own slacking was what was primarily at fault. Even if Harry does lack the underlying makings of an Occlumens. Albus confirms Ron’s suspicions when he admits that the lessons were likely to open Harry’s mind further — which is why he hadn’t attempted to teach Harry himself.

Now I just wonder whether this wasn’t simply an admission that Snape was deliberately subverting Harry and leaving him open to Tom’s tampering. With Albus’s knowledge and approval, too.

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And, as it turned out, Harry didn’t look into the Pensieve the first time it was offered. Trelawney’s uproar over being sacked, called Snape out of the room right on schedule, leaving Harry alone with the Pensieve. (Exactly at the point that it had been bourne in on Snape that his escape clause might need to be executed. Even if not necessarily for the reason he had anticipated.) But Harry followed Snape out of the room to see what the ruckus was, instead of taking the bait.

Something else that I suspect is significant is that this particular breakthrough appears to have taken place at the very end of March, about two weeks after Harry had his vision of the interview between Voldemort and Rookwood. And the timing of these events now seems a little suspicious to me. The three Hogwarts terms run; Autumn Term = September to mid-December; Spring Term = roughly January-March; Summer Term = roughly April-June, with respectively a 3 week and a 2 week break between them. This second break apparently shifts slightly one way or the other, year by year in order to contain Easter.

Note: Rowling plays fast and loose with these term divisions whenever she chooses. But it seems significant that her narrative of the time between the penultimate Occlumency session and the final one, after Dumbledore was driven from the school, manages to seriously muddle our realization that the actual time involved could not have been more than a matter of days. She buries us in day-to-day minutia which gives the impression that rather a lot of time had passed, but the only definite statement as to time passing between the penultimate session and the final one (which ought to have been no more than a week apart) is that we went from March to April. (Easter must have been late that year.) During this interval the DA was routed and Dumbledore was driven from the school. Which could have been only a day or two after Trelawney was sacked.

And the very first Occlumency session after Dumbledore is gone, which was still before the term broke up for Easter, Snape deliberately left Harry alone with the Pensieve, before they could even get properly started. And, from the way Rowling gives us the lead-in to this final session, it sounds very much as if this probably is the *very next session* after the one where Harry “broke through” Snape’s guard.

Although I still cannot be altogether certain about the possible attempt during the previous session, I am convinced that this second “opportunity,” the one that did succeed, was set up deliberately. We tend to overlook just how quickly that second opportunity followed upon the first.

Harry and Snape (and the rest of Hogwarts) were all having a very busy time that Spring. In the middle of February Harry had given Rita Skeeter an exclusive interview about the return of the Dark Lord. The article had been printed in the March edition of the Quibbler. Harry had his vision of Voldemort and Rookwood right after the article was published and copies reached the school, and the vision was already two weeks past when he appeared to finally turn the tables on Snape during an Occlumency lesson. This session took place on the evening that Trelawney was sacked.

Query: doesn’t it strike anyone but me as sinister that within two weeks after we see Rookwood explaining the protections that the Ministry routinely places on Prophecy records, Trelawney is abruptly sacked, a scant week–10 days before the end of the school Term (why not just wait until the Term ends at least?) and a determined effort is made to see her ejected from the protections of Hogwarts Castle?

For that matter, do we have any reason to believe that the Rookwood vision took place in real time? In that vision, we watched Rookwood explain why Bode (strangled by the cutting of Devil’s Snare in St Mungo’s over the Christmas break) could NOT have removed the Prophecy record from the DoM.

Rookwood had been sprung from Azkaban back in, what? The first week of January? The news of the break-out was all over the front page of the Prophecy on the kids’ first day back at school. Wouldn’t you expect this particular conversation to have taken place back then?

And what’s with the bit at the end where after Rookwood leaves and once the room is empty, and there no longer is anything in the room to associate it with any specific time, then Voldemort suddenly gets up, goes over and reveals himself in the mirror, so Harry cannot help but get the point of what he has been watching? Does the former Tom Riddle really strike you as the kind of guy who spends a lot of time contemplating himself in mirrors? He’s not exactly introspective, is he?

But he does have a track record of experimenting with memory modification.

Think about it.

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Let’s take another look at what was going on the evening of that vision.

The Quibbler article had just come out, and Umbridge with her usual ineptitude managed to assure