Truths in the Wizarding World

[Ebony]

No: HPFGUIDX 7252

Hello Pippin and everyone else:

> > Why not?  (I watched "Romeo Must Die" over the weekend and 
> > something in this vein was said/implied in the movie.)  
> > Elaborate, someone!  
> 
> 	This is a basic rule of pop fiction, courtesy of a course I 
took 
> in scriptwriting: The villain must die in the last ditch.
> 	If your story is a multivolume serial, then you can't kill 
the bad 
> guy till the whole thing's over, so Voldemort will be around (I 
> predict) till about 10 pages from the end of Book 7. In fan fic he 
will 
> be around forever.

I hate the rules of fiction.  This is probably why I am 
unpublished.  :)  Why not kill Voldemort at the end of Book 6, then 
have everyone begin Book 7 thinking "all is well" and the reader 
thinking, "well, JKR promised 7 books and this is just the 
denouement"... then smack 'em upside the head with the *real* villain-
-Voldemort was just his faithful lieutenant.

It would take *phenomenal* writing ability to pull this off.  I know 
I couldn't.  JKR easily could.


> > I'd also like for others to add to the list if they can think of 
anything 
> > else--

> *There's always something fishy about the DADA teacher*
Yes... unfortunately in my fic, Percy *is* the DADA teacher.  Snape's 
dead.

> *You can't apparate or disapparate on the Hogwarts grounds*
Yes... unfortunately, in the alternate fifth year backstory of my 
fic, stealth Death Eaters breach Dumbledore's wards several times, 
make themselves nearly invisible in corridors, and murder any student 
walking them alone in cold blood.  (Very Freudian... I'm writing out 
my phobias here.)

> *Hagrid will exercise poor judgment*
I'm not sure if he's alive or not.  I think I'll let him be alive and 
working with Harry and Sirius.  He's one of my favorite characters, 
hands down.

> *No spell can waken the dead*
I'd *love* for JKR to disprove this.  Several fanfic writers already 
have.  I think that the canonical climax would be nicely suited to a 
resurrection scenario.

> *The bad guys, having all the info they need and all their plans in 
> place, will inexplicably wait until the end of term to attack*

LOL!  Yes!  How about this one:

"Harry, Ron, and/or Hermione will *always* end up in the hospital 
wing, hovered over by a fussing Madame Pomfrey, at the end of every 
Hogwarts term."

Thanks so much, Pippin.  I needed that--have to walk to class in 
double-digit below zero temps.  And it's not even winter yet.

Keep them coming, everyone!

Ebony