Finishing Voldemort

[blpurdom]

No: HPFGUIDX 38076

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "tex23236" <jbryson at r...> wrote:
> 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.

I would suspect that salsa would help microchips' flavor somewhat. 
<g>  In this case, we know about the sword and why it is there, so 
this can't be foreshadowing.  Harry already used this to kill the 
basilisk in CoS.  JKR doesn't tend to repeat herself.  I believe 
this sword is said to be in a glass case now because it is a museum 
piece; an artifact of one of Harry's earlier adventures, like the 
Mirror of Erised (the stone has been destroyed, so that doesn't 
qualify) and possibly the Triwizard Cup may turn up in Dumbledore's 
office as well (perhaps Dumbledore's going to open a Harry Potter 
museum when he retires <g>).  There's plenty of foreshadowing in the 
series, but the sword in Dumbledore's office is more like 
AFTshadowing.  Whatever the downfall of Voldemort (and he will fall, 
I'm sure) we probably won't see it coming any more than we saw the 
Polyjuiced Crouch, Jr. coming, even after the concept of Polyjuice 
potion was introduced in CoS.

--Barb

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