[HPforGrownups] Re: End of and Era

[devika261 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 21082

In a message dated 6/16/01 10:45:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
koinonia02 at yahoo.com writes:


> From an interview with Rowling July 18, 2000/CBC Newsworld:
> 
> Question/Statement:  This is the crucial book, because after this 
> book, everything changes.  The whole world seems to go through a 
> radical transformation.
> 
> Answer:  Well, it's the end of an era.  Book Four is the end of an 
> era for Harry.  He's been very protected until now.
> 

So this means that after book 4, Harry is no longer very protected?  Hmmm...

Allison wrote: 
 I don't think Dumbledore will die - he's too important.  He runs the 
anti-Voldemort group and he has physically saved Harry's life 
on more then one occasion (SS, GoF).  

But I think it *is* likely he will be removed from his position as 
Headmaster.  After all, the Minister of Magic doesn't want to believe 
V came back.  If Dumbledore is actively fighting V (which I'm sure he 
will), Fudge might remove him, if he has the power to do so.  And if 
he can't, he could pressure the school governors to do so.

That's what I think "end of an era" means, but hey, that's just me. 


I don't think that Dumbledore will die right away.  However, I think his time 
will come in book 6, perhaps early in the book (or even at the very end of 
book 5).  I wrote a post before saying that I can see Dumbledore dying 
because Harry and co. need to learn to depend on themselves.  I still think 
that's true, but I doubt that they will be capable of that just yet.  Book 5 
may describe a time when everyone who will be fighting Voldemort is beginning 
to plan a way to defeat him, and Dumbledore, who will probably know that he 
won't be around to help them forever, will try to give the others their own 
major parts to play in the fight.  
I have another thought, though.  Dumbledore seems to be Harry's main 
protector.  Voldemort would not plan a direct attack on Hogwarts because 
Dumbledore is there, and even Harry's arrangement with the Dursleys (Mrs. 
Figg, Fidelius Charm, whatever you might think it is) was set up by 
Dumbledore.  If Harry is no longer "very protected" after book 4, could this 
mean that Dumbledore will no longer be at Hogwarts?  At the end of book 4, 
Fudge was obviously not pleased with Dumbledore.  He seems to think that 
Dumbledore is part of some plot to cause widespread chaos in the wizarding 
world.  He tells Dumbledore that he will be in touch with him shortly to 
discuss the running of the school.  This always struck me as rather ominous.  
Fudge may very well have forced Dumbledore into retirement at the end of the 
school year.  I agree with Allison that Dumbledore's leaving the school would 
certainly be the end of an era, and I can see Dumbledore leading the fight 
from somewhere other than Hogwarts (and then dying in the battle later).  
Even Dumbledore's speech at the Leaving Feast can be seen, IMO, as a farewell 
speech with a final plea to the students to do what is right rather than what 
is easy after he is gone.  And Dumbledore's absence would certainly make 
Harry much more vulnerable and open to attack from outside.
This is just random speculation, but maybe Mrs. Figg is somehow part of 
Harry's protection.  And maybe now, with Dumbledore gone, she will have to be 
the new DADA teacher to continue that protection.  Although I'm not sure 
exactly how that would work...

Devika



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