[HPforGrownups] Re: Goblins (was Snape's Task)

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 15852

Jennifer Piersol wrote:

> Ahem.
> Amanda, my dear, I commented on it. :)

Whoops. Here you go...

I am so disappointed that nobody, <Insert Text> save one amazingly
insightful, perspicacious, and highly intelligent person <End Insert
Text>, 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.

> (and posts from invisible people tend to become invisible themselves)
> it's message #15468.

You're not invisible, where'd you get that idea? You just don't talk as
much as I do. Nobody talks as much as I do. Here's what you said:

I really like the idea that the goblins are going to be Voldy's
downfall.  Especially if it echoes Bagman's downfall... you know,
Voldy's aware of how the goblins love money, all that stuff... and then
he doesn't take them seriously when they start asking for their
paychecks for working in his service...
<snip>
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This is exactly the scenario I'd envisioned. Didn't Fred or George
mention something about how goblins only care about gold, or something,
in GoF (when they finally explain what they've been doing), or didn't
Hagrid or someone mention this when he first takes Harry to Gringott's?

I just suddenly got suspicious, the way goblin rebellions and conflicts
have always been in the "background noise," in Every Single Book, seems
like (I'll have to go look), and now they seem just totally ignored and
it's taken for granted that they're safe. To the extent that they seem
to control all the money.

And house-elves having their own kind of magic made me think that
perhaps goblins do too--and I wondered if the species were related at
all...? Will Dobby be important as a goblin liaison of some kind...?

Reeling into speculation, and with dishes calling me from downstairs,
Amanda


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