Finishing Voldemort

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 38079

I wrote:
>>>If that sword doesn't prove to be Voldemort's bane, I'll eat my 
laptop.<<<

And Barb suggested
> 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>)<<<

Thanks for the serving suggestion. There is a shop around here 
that says they can make *anything* out of chocolate (they got in 
trouble once for doing chocolate Oscars without a license). I am 
sure they can do a G4 <g> 

But really >>JKR doesn't tend to repeat herself.<<< are you 
kidding? Unregistered animagi, polyjuice, DADA teachers with a 
secret, things getting smashed by the Whomping Willow, Hagrid  
and his absurdly dangerous pets, Neville blowing up cauldrons, 
etc, etc, and so forth. JKR is very fond of  variations on a theme. 
In contrast to the Stone,  that sword has been carefully 
preserved. Unlike the Mirror of Erised, we have been allowed to 
know where it is. I think it is going to be used again, else it would 
have fallen into a convenient abyss, like Luke's first light-sabre. 
 
As to how the sword might be used, rereading FBAWTF, I noticed 
this description under Ukrainian Ironbelly (p 14): " ...extremely 
dangerous, capable of crushing dwellings on which it lands.The 
scales are metallic grey, the eyes deep red, and the talons 
particularly long and vicious." 
Now I ask you, does that sound like anyone we know? 

We know that Voldemort can do  extremely dangerous magical 
transformations. Suppose he turns himself into such a creature, 
the better to destroy Hogwarts? Then Harry could kill him with the 
sword, without raising all those messy human rights/capital 
punishment issues.

Pippin