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keshwyn ([personal profile] keshwyn) wrote in [community profile] alt_fen2014-11-20 12:58 pm

Speculation.

So is Crouch playing bait and hoping he'll draw some assailants out of the woodwork?

Or did Voldemort make a substantive mistake here?
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[personal profile] kiya 2014-11-20 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Or is V doing something to punish the Lucius/Barty/Dolohov faction of DEs by putting Barty in harm's way?

Or does V simply not give a shit if the wards kill his people?

Or did something else happen to Barty after his initial transit?

Or...

Regardless, it is going to blow up in six unpredictable directions.
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[personal profile] cheyinka 2014-11-21 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Possibly Voldie believed Rookwood that the potion to make crossing the wards less ghastly works. (Possibly Rookwood believes it works.)

And, you know, it's interesting: this is I think only the second time that a private message header has been done wrong, and we've never seen the Order lock done wrong...

I tend to think that Crouch is probably not playing bait: it looks like he tried to write to "Batya", not to "A Dolohov". (In fact, scanning back through his journal, it looks like the two times he's written from Ireland are the only times he's addressed Dolohov that way in an entry, rather than comment, header - otherwise it's been Toshenka or A Dolohov.) Which suggests also that it's not someone else using his journal and intentionally messing up the private message header so that they'd still be able to see the message afterwards.
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[personal profile] stormyhearted 2014-11-22 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
It's possible this is less ghastly, but maybe not by much. I can only wonder what kind of shape Barty will be in if Dolohov manages to get the LP to agree to recall him- I can't imagine a second trip through the wards, in the state he's in, is going to be pleasant.
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[personal profile] kiya 2014-11-23 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, Dolohov's "I want to get you BACK RIGHT NOW" strikes me as... more likely to finish him off than solve the problem.
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[personal profile] stormyhearted 2014-11-23 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I think Barty's death is the only thing that's going to get Dolohov to act on his treasonous thoughts- I just wonder how that will play out, with Desai and Lana under the same roof.
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[personal profile] annia 2014-11-23 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Looks like Dolohov won't be going to LP after all: http://alt-crouch-jr.dreamwidth.org/74861.html
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[personal profile] stinaleigh 2014-11-23 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
He might still be going to the LP with Barty still being that screwed up.

(Anonymous) 2014-11-24 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh man, Dolohov going Mama Bear backed up by Narcissa who also wants to go Mama Bear?

BRB making popcorn.
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[personal profile] kiya 2014-11-24 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Dammit that was me. Dear DW: why you keep logging me out? :P
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[personal profile] stinaleigh 2014-11-25 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
All the +1s.
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[personal profile] cheyinka 2014-11-25 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
....all the popcorn. Wow. Yes. Perfect. I really hope this is where this is going.