[HPforGrownups] PoU and Voldemort's fate

[Sister Mary Lunatic]

No: HPFGUIDX 1046

There's no guarantee that Voldemort will be destroyed in any way by the end
of book 7.  I wonder if JKR is going to forswear sweetness and light and
happy endings.  Or Voldemort may personally be vanquished, but his evil
ideas will continue to plague the wizarding world.  There's always SOME
tyrant waiting in the wings to try his or her hand at Domination.  It will
be interesting to see what JKR has in store.  Knowing her writing, it will
probably take us all by surprise.


-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Bates [mailto:spicoli323 at hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 5:22 PM
To: HPforGrownups at egroups.com
Subject: [HPforGrownups] PoU and Voldemort's fate

I know I am way behind everyone else on this, but I finally read
Paradigm of Uncertainty and, well, wow!!  The only reservations I
have are a couple of minor inconsistencies and my belief that Cho
gets too much of a bad rap as it is.  But the writing is excellent
and the romance angle, which could so easily have become cliche, is
handled perfectly.  I've never read fanfic before and I know I am
going to be spoiled now and have over-high expectations for anything
else I read (but hopefully ASA can fulfill those expectations).
PoU did get me thinking on exactly how Voldemort is to be defeated by
Book 7.  It has been stated, implicitly and explicitly, that Voldy
has become something other than a physical human and cannot be
killed.  So if Voldy is killed, it will be no more than a half-
victory--Voldy will be no more defeated at the end of the series than
he was at the beginning.  So if you can kill Voldy's body but not his
spirit, you'd need something that can destroy his spirit as well.
And, of course, JKR has already introduced something that can destroy
a spirit, or "soul": a dementor.  Might it turn out that the only way
to permanently get rid of Voldy is to have a dementor kiss him?  If
so, how to turn the dementors against Voldy?


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