Thoughts on Final Showdown Category

[Smythe, Boyd T {FLNA}]

>Dot wrote: Actually... I've been wondering for a while whether we need a
category for the final showdown between Harry and Voldy.<

>Then Anne wrote: Oooo, yes. It could go among the predictions....<


Carolyn, you suggested it go under DD, but that assumes he *knows* what he's
doing. Wow, even saying that makes me feel subversive! What if he's just
stumbling along matching up reality with Trelawney's 1st prediction without
really knowing *how* all this destroys LV or saves the WW? Imagine his shock
when he sees that he has destroyed the WW! We always assume DD knows all,
but it's quite possible that he doesn't know exactly what's going to happen.

So I'd vote for placing such posts under Predictions for now--some of the
coded Book 7 predictions are, in fact, right in line with this. Good job,
everyone! Of course, after the series is over <ack!>, we could easily go
back and find the closest theories and give them a special place of honor in
the Catalogue.


>Debbie wrote on Tonks: Either too fishy or too PC, as in Look!  Young
career woman in the Order eschewing traditional feminine roles! Because the
other women in the Order are either wives of other order members or they're
invisible.  Hestia Jones, anyone?<


I like that! But then why make her so clumsy that she seems inept? Should
have just made Shacklebolt a woman in that case. Hey, come to think of it:
bald head, deep voice, one gold hooped earring? Either Mr. Clean
(http://www.homemadesimple.com/mrclean/) has been moonlighting at the MoM or
dear Kingsley is a female trying a bit too hard to look the part of the
macho male Auror! <g> While we're on the subject of cross-dressing, perhaps
Snape has been hiding a very different secret under those dingy
underpants.... Prank or bad blind date? You decide!

Back to Tonks: maybe she is just the next Forge--a comic diversion. Problem
is I don't find her that much fun. So I still vote for ESE!Tonks (using
clumsiness as a cover), or at least EasilyDuped!Tonks. Her persona just
seems much more in tune with individualism (and perhaps individual acts of
subversion against society?) than her role as a junior Auror would allow.

--Boyd