[HPforGrownups] Re: Chapter 34 Summary

[Doreen]

No: HPFGUIDX 14157


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?

Voldy obviously has no qualms about killing kids, as he did Cedric in
without a thought.  So he can't be worried about what others think about
him, if he were to kill Harry unfairly. I think he had something to prove to
himself.  He felt that he could win a battle with an inexperienced teenager,
no problem, just because he is who he is. Never underestimate the enemy. The
scene when he handed Harry back his wand reminded me of the final scene in
Quiggly Down Under)

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

No. I think they are more like "finger prints" of murders done by your wand,
much in the same way that bullets can be traced back to a particular gun. I
think they could speak to Harry much in the same way that if they were drawn
out by the MOM, they could have told the MOM who had killed them.

3.We know that the Avada Kedavra curse is associated with green
light.  But what was the symbolism, if any, of the red light
streaming from Harry's wand?

hmmm red light green light ... opposite forces of good & evil?

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?

Yes, I wish that she had come up with a reason, even if she had to make one
up due to the printing mistake, or that she had just admitted it publicly,
corrected it, and gone on. She was too evasive about the wand error and also
about the descendant/ancestor error. It does not do much for her
credibility.

5. Do you think we'll see Cedric's ghost at Hogwart's now?

I think it would be interesting if he did show up, maybe during a Quidditch
match. Did he die happy? Was it enough for him that he won the Tournament
and that Harry took his body back to his parents? Or is he an unhappy ghost
because, even though he won the tournament, he didn't live to enjoy the
celebration... and he died leaving his Cho behind... I don't think he died
happy. I think he will show himself to Harry or Cho.

Doreen