[HPforGrownups] Re: Truths in the Wizarding World

[Snuffles MacGoo]

No: HPFGUIDX 7287

Brilliant Pippin, I can't believe I missed the apperate/disaperate at Hogwarts 
one.  Ebony, go for your life and yek! Re the temperatures


As to "you can't kill the bad guy" - I know what you are saying about rules of 
fiction etc but I think that evil will always exist in the world, some of the 
'bad guys' may die, but some will live on. If Jo let Voldemort live on (in what 
ever cursed form he is in by then - even if its just in his ideas) I'd not be 
surprised. After all (I think) that one of the fabulous things about these 
books is the level of real life parallels. There is not pretending that it will 
be alright. (think Hitler - some serving Australian soldiers were on the front 
page of one of the newspapers today saluting hitler. The man is dead, but his 
ideas live on - for reasons that escape me and I suspect all of you.)

On that ponderous note

Storm (healthy dogs, no thunder, quiet life)
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Subject:	[HPforGrownups] Re: Truths in the Wizarding World

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Ebony " <ebonyink at h...> wrote:

> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Snuffles MacGoo
> <msmacgoo at o...> wrote:
> > * You can't kill the bad guy.
>
> 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'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*
*You can't apparate or disapparate on the Hogwarts grounds*
*Hagrid will exercise poor judgment*
*No spell can waken the dead*
*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*
	Please feel free to use these in any way.
Pippin




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