High price of victory/LOTR

[Caius Marcius]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> CMC wrote on the main list:
> 
> >I think, as in LOTR, that the HP narrative will end with the 
defeat 
> >of evil, but it will come at an extremely high price. 
> 
> I know we're probably supposed to read LOTR this way, but I really 
> don't.  Frodo's finger and Lothlorien (which was dying anyway, 
IIRC?) 
> aren't that big a price in my book.  The only person who dies who 
> really has my heart is Gollum, and his life is such a misery that 
> it's almost a relief when he dies.  

It's been years since I read LOTR - I'm not thinking of the deaths 
and injuries to individuals, but more the changes in the balance of 
Middle Earth power: IIRC, the hobbits and other changes realize they 
will have to cede the greater degree of their authority to humans, as 
they gradually fade away (no doubt a parallel with Imperial Britain 
at the end of WWII).  

JKR probably won't end with any cataclysmic change in the balance of 
power between wizards and Muggles - the price that will be paid to 
defeat evil will be in the sacrifice of individual characters. 

    - CMC

  - CMC