Dumbledore's Death -- Draco & Quidditch -- Voldemort related to Harry -- Ginny again

Penny & Bryce pennylin at swbell.net
Fri Oct 19 21:29:21 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 27961

Hi --

SALeathem at aol.com wrote:

> 
> Funny you should say that, cos when GoF was published last year, I'm 
> *sure* I heard JKR say that Dumbledore dies in the next book (in one of the many 
> CBBC> TV appearances she made at the time). There were hints all over the end of
> GoF of his impending fate as well - plenty of detail being given of how 
> Harry> thinks he (Dumbledore) is looking so old and weary, and not his usual 
> self in> some way. I actually thought JKR had said that Dumbledore dies at the 
> end of> GoF but obviously, that didn't happen. So she must have meant Book 5.

I agree that there is certainly foreshadowing of Dumbledore's eventual 
death in the series.  But, I have serious doubts that JKR has *ever* 
specifically identified any character as a *definite* death, let alone 
laid out any sort of timetable for it.  She's entirely too cagey in 
interviews & chats to ever give anything away.

Dorothy said:

> In the same way that Draco is
> obsessed with Harry...Draco wants to play Quidditch because Harry
> does.

Actually, Draco has apparently been playing Quidditch well before Harry 
even knows he's a wizard.  It's not a sport that he took up in response 
to Harry being a Seeker.  He complains about 1st years not being allowed 
on the teams, and given his flying abilities, it seems reasonably clear 
that Draco has Quidditch experience.

VOLDEMORT RELATED TO HARRY?  I see that the old "Voldemort is related to 
Harry" theories are starting up again. :--)

Aside from the fact that JKR has said in a chat that this would be "too 
Star Wars-ish," which all but confirms that Voldie is *not* related to 
Harry, there are genealogical problems with the theory too.  Dumbledore 
says that Voldemort is the *last* remaining descendant of Slytherin.  If 
true, Voldemort has no descendants.  None.

GINNY --

MagicDust! wrote:

> Girl next door or not, Ginny most definetely has a crush on Harry.
> I'm thinking that with Cho so upset over Cedric Ginny'll probably
> start offering advice to Harry following the best Dawson's Creek
> traditions and this will probably have the same effect as the
> Pacey/Joey love thing going on.

:::has heart attack that anyone can mention HP & that horrid Dawson's 
Creek show in the same breath:::

> Incidentally, on-screen time or not, she takes up a good chunk of
> the second book with her trials and tribulations as "owner" of Tom
> Riddle's Diary, so I think she's in the running for love interest.

We the readers don't see any of these trials/tribulations.  Ginny is 
only in the action down in the Chamber, and of course, she's unconscious 
for most all of that.  She may be pivotal to the plot, but her character 
isn't advanced any at all by this role.  Really, *anyone* could have 
played the role of Pawn of Tom Riddle/Keeper of the Diary".  We don't 
learn much of anything about her.  She is still very much a background 
character, and slips even further into the background in the succeeding 
books of PoA & GoF.  *If* she is to be a legitimate love interest of our 
hero, she needs to be considerably more developed as a character in the 
next book(s) before that can happen.
Penny






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