Not Creme de Minthe
Feb. 6th, 2006 08:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lls_mutantQuestion for you all:
For my purposes, I've decided it's probably eau de Dementor. (To mimic Nanny Ogg, that's foreign for Dementor piss.) I think it's a pretty good guess- it's at least reasonable.
Here's the question: when Dumbledore drank it, did he relive his worst memories, or was it his worst fears? Or was it a combination of both?
If it is eau de Dementor, it makes sense that it would be Dumbledore's worst memories. (And for Tom Riddle, a worst memory would probably be something like cuddling a kitten, so he's probably immune to it, if his worst memories don't bother him.) But the way I read the text made me think that Dumbledore was envisioning a time he couldn't protect his students. (But was it his students? One of the themes I touched on when Caradoc found out that Dumbledore wanted Remus to be a spy was that it's an old man's war and a young man's fight. It could be that Dumbledore felt a lot of Bad Feelings for watching the younger members of the Order die as he survived. Or it could be something else entirely. Perhaps Grindewald threatened the school. Perhaps it was his younger siblings, and he wad defending them against his parents or attackers or whatever.
Anyway, I'm curious to see what people think, if there's an overwhelming consensus one way or the other. I usually don't let other people drive what I write, but since this is an unconsequential decision, I'm curious to see what people think.
For my purposes, I've decided it's probably eau de Dementor. (To mimic Nanny Ogg, that's foreign for Dementor piss.) I think it's a pretty good guess- it's at least reasonable.
Here's the question: when Dumbledore drank it, did he relive his worst memories, or was it his worst fears? Or was it a combination of both?
If it is eau de Dementor, it makes sense that it would be Dumbledore's worst memories. (And for Tom Riddle, a worst memory would probably be something like cuddling a kitten, so he's probably immune to it, if his worst memories don't bother him.) But the way I read the text made me think that Dumbledore was envisioning a time he couldn't protect his students. (But was it his students? One of the themes I touched on when Caradoc found out that Dumbledore wanted Remus to be a spy was that it's an old man's war and a young man's fight. It could be that Dumbledore felt a lot of Bad Feelings for watching the younger members of the Order die as he survived. Or it could be something else entirely. Perhaps Grindewald threatened the school. Perhaps it was his younger siblings, and he wad defending them against his parents or attackers or whatever.
Anyway, I'm curious to see what people think, if there's an overwhelming consensus one way or the other. I usually don't let other people drive what I write, but since this is an unconsequential decision, I'm curious to see what people think.
