Goblins (was Snape's Task)

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 15824

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> koinonia02 at y... wrote:
> 
> > > The only group left, in my mind, is the Dementors. >
> >
> > That doesn't mean it is the only group left.  Voldemort is going 
to
> > open up Azkaban and get the dementors to join him.  He is going to
> > recall the banished giants.  "I shall have all my devoted servants
> > returned to me, and an army of creatures whom all fear...." Is the
> > 'army of creatures' only the dementors and giants?  In my opinion 
we
> > are going to see 'creatures' we haven't seen yet.  Voldemort spent
> > many years traveling far and wide in his search for immortality.  
I
> > believe he has more up his sleeve then just dementors and giants.
> 
> What about the goblins? I'm so disappointed that nobody commented 
on my
> brilliant and profound insights about third parties bringing about
> Voldemort's downfall and how we have all been quietly conditioned 
by the
> device of Professor Binns to think of goblin wars and goblins as a
> danger as a Thing of The Past. I still think that if Voldemort 
courts
> the goblins, he can wreak havoc on the wizarding world
> economically--they control all the gold in the only bank we've 
heard of.
> 
> --Amanda, taking credit for her husband's thought about the goblins
> maybe being the agents of Voldemort's destruction
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Amanda, I did think about your goblin comments, and forgot to mail a 
reply.  I wanted to differentiate between goblin "wars" - the way 
everyone has been descibing them in mails, and goblin "rebellions" 
which is how Professor Binns describes them and how they are taught 
at Hogwarts.
I agree, we don't know whether they are now an autonomous third 
party, because we don't know the outcome of the rebellions, but it 
seems that by the mere fact of them being rebellions, the goblins 
used to be under some kind of control of the Wizarding community and 
the MoM (or whatever came before it - can't remember) and tried to 
become independent.
That means, that either they are now independent, and therefore have 
no loyalty, duty towards the "good" wizards/witches and could easily 
turn, if offered better terms, or they are still monitored and 
controlled by the MoM, but, looking at the precedents, are likely to 
try again for independence and ally themselves with Voldemort.  Who 
knows?

Catherine