Chapter 34 Summary

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> Questions
> 
> 1.	Harry has beaten Voldemort on several occasions by now.  Why 
then did Voldemort untie him and give him back his wand?  Is he on 
drugs or just stupid?

Normally, I'm of the Cardboard Voldemort School. You know, I'm the 
one who posted the URL of the evil overlord list. In defense of 
Voldy's competence, however, the fact that the wands were "twins" was 
unknown to him, and Priori Incantantem was a one-in-a-million chance. 
That still doesn't change the fact that it was quite a waste of time 
to bother duelling Harry, and him slipping away could have happened 
anyhow, but Voldemort had good reason to be confident of not being 
beaten by him. 

> 
> 2.	Were the apparitions emerging from Voldie's wand ghosts?  If 
not, what were they and why were they able to speak to Harry?
> 

I always wondered why they seemed to possess a kind of consciousness. 
They knew what was going on and who Harry was and all. Maybe it's 
something like the Tom Riddle Diary, which is not actually Voldemort, 
but can think and think like him. 

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> 4.	Do you wish that, even though the original wand order was a 
mistake, Jo had worked with it and come up with a reason for James' 
emerging first?

Personally, no. I'd just issue an erratum notice. 

> 
> 5.	Do you think we'll see Cedric's ghost at Hogwart's now?
> 
<agreement with previous posters on Cedric not fulfilling rules>

Charmian