Finishing Voldemort

[tex23236]

No: HPFGUIDX 38062

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "tex23236" <jbryson at r...> wrote:
> 
> > Point taken.  I doubt the AK alone, whether cast directly or 
> > bouncing off Harry,  will kill Voldemort for good. We may 
> > need something else for that. That's why I was looking at
> > deletrius.
> >
> 
> What we need is in Dumbledore's office: "A glass case...held a 
> magnificent silver sword with large rubies set into the hilt, which 
> Harry recognized as the one he himself had pulled out of the 
> Sorting Hat in his second year. The sword had once belonged to 
> Godric Gryffindor, founder of Harry's House."
> --GoF ch. 30
> 
> Anton Chekhov is supposed to have said that if you hang a gun 
> on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the third. If that
sword 
> doesn't prove to be Voldemort's bane, I'll eat my laptop.

Heh... Yeah, that sword.  

Snuffing a wand-waving Voldemort with a sword would be like
sucker--punching.  But, hey, it couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

I wonder if the sword is magic in any way. I wonder if, for 
instance, it could finish decapitating Nearly Headless 
Nick -- which would finish his "unfinished business" and send him
on his Next Great Adventure (c).  I see him "Assuming the Position"
at the Gryffindor table in the Great Hall, in front of the whole
school, and Harry doing the chop.  Then Myrtle could be the 
Gryffindor Ghost.  

I was dissapointed Harry didn't get to keep the sword.

Of course, if Harry dies, he and Myrtle could be a --ship.  She's 
already expressed an interest.

Tex

What house was she in, anyway? She reminds me sort of Hermione,
early in SS/PS, hiding in the bathroom and meeting a monster.