The Quidditch World Cup Match- Major Foreshadowing?

[aldrea279]

No: HPFGUIDX 40182

Rosie mused:
>From what is building up so far, it
*seems* that we are building up to either Voldemort-is-vanquished or
Voldemort-triumphs. I can't see it being sort of wishy-washy: do you 
think it
would be like a Quidditch match? "Now Voldemort is in possession - 
and no,
Dumbledore gets the Quaffle" etc? Eventually, someone has to get the 
golden
snitch.>

Working off of what you said, about the War in the books being like a 
Quidditch match...I'm almost forming a bit of a parallel between the 
QWC match and the War.  *goes off and re-reads the chapter from GoF 
about the QWC*

***Note: All references are GoF, US Edition, Hardback***

Alrighty, then.  Let's start off with the teams.  I'm pegging the 
Ireland Team as the Dark Side, and the Bulgarians as the Light Side.  
I'm not paralleling any one person to another: i.e.- saying Krum and 
Harry are parallels. Nope, not at all. Just paralleling the Quidditch 
aspects of certain characters with the some of the War's main 
soldiers.

Now, the Match starts off and it's pretty much back and forth for a 
bit.  Then, the Irish Chaser's sweep in for two goals.  At this, 
people really notice them.  Harry is amazed at how efficient they 
are.  Then..

*The match became still faster, but more brutal.* Pg. 107

The Irish Chasers are being paralleled to DE's.  The DE's get 
themselves noticed, and then the Light Side fights back.

*Volkov and Vulchanov, the Bulgarian Beaters, were whacking the 
Bludgers as fiercley as possible at the Irish Chasers, and were 
starting to prevent them from using some of their best movies; twice 
they were forced to scatter, and then, finally, Ivanova managed to 
break through their ranks; dodge the Keeper, Ryan; and score 
Bulgaria's first goal.* Pg. 107-108

Now.  The Irish Chasers are going to be some big shot Death Eater's, 
very much involved in helping the spread of Voldemort.  The rest of 
the Ireland team(Beaters, Keeper) are Death Eater's.  The Blugarian 
Beater's seem to me to be Aurors.  So, the Chasers get alot of 
trouble from the Beater's and then start breaking through.

*One hundred thousand wizard gapsed as the two Seekers, Krum and 
Lynch, plummeted through the center of the Chasers, so fast that it 
looked as though they had just jumped from airplanes without 
parachutes.* Pg. 108

*At the very last second, Viktor Krum pulled out of the dive and 
spiraled off.  Lynch, however, hit the ground with a dull thud that 
could be heard throughout the stadium.* Pg. 108

Krum is going to parallel to mostly Harry, but also a little bit of 
Albus Dumbledore, and I can't help but think somene else will be a 
major hero when all is said and done.  Lynch, being the head of the 
Ireland team, is Voldemort.  

Yes, yes, I know Krum was faking that move- and I'm not implying that 
Harry fakes anything(he's an infant, how can he?). But it goes along 
with the War story line in that Voldemort goes after Harry, Harry 
gets away, and Voldie crashes and -burns-. 

*He(Krum) was now circling high above Lynch, who was being revived by 
mediwizards with cups of potion.* Pg. 109

Hmm...revied...potion...Revival Potion!  Ooh...

*His(Lynch's) revival seemed to give Ireland new heart.  When Mostafa 
blew his whistle again, the Chasers moved into action with a skill 
unrivaled by anything Harry had ever seen so far.* Pg. 109

Ooh, that doesn't sound good for Harry and Co.  After the Revival, 
they come back better than before...  

And(I think this supports the MAGIC DISWASHER theory) but what about 
Dumbledore slightly paralleling Mostafa?  Hmm...Dumbledore the 
Referee?  Dumbledore, by MD, did instigate Voldemort rising and the 
DE's getting back together and such.

*They(Ireland) were now leading by one hundred and thiry points to 
ten, and the game was startng to get dirtier.* Pg. 109

Oh, drastic measures?

As the game goes on, an Irish Chaser gets fouled by the Bulgarian 
Keeper.  Could the Keeper be paralleled to Hagrird?  The GroundKEEPER 
of Hogwarts? Hmm...this means Hagrid plays slightly dirty, and 
Dumbledore(Mostafa) calls him on it.  

*Play now reached a level of ferocity beyond anything they had yet 
seen.  The Beaters on both sides were acting without mercy; Volkov 
and Vulchanov in particular seemed not to care wheather their clubs 
made contact with Bludger or human as they swung them violently in 
the air.* Pg. 111

The Good Guys resulting to slightly more violent tactics...

Dimitrov(Bulgarian Chaser) fouls Moran(Irish Chaser).

Does this mean that a big time Light Sider is going to cause some 
trouble for a very high ranked DE?

Well, as the Match heats up, insaity ensues on the field between the 
mascots. I'm not sure where to place the mascots.  Possibly as the 
MoM or the general public?  Because it does seem likely that awhile 
after Voldemort rises, the MoM will FINALLY pull it's head out of the 
sand and all hell will break loose.  

And so, Krum takes a Bludger full in the face.  Does this mean a 
major blow to Harry/Light Side?  And when this happens, the Referee 
is distracted by the Veela. Will Dumbledore be away when this big 
blow occurs?

Lynch sees the Snitch and makes a desperate dive for it0 but Krum, 
bleeding and everything, beats him too it.  And yet again, Lynch 
crashes and burns. But he's also overun by a crowd of Veela as soon 
as he lands.  

That would be an interesting ending.  Harry coming out of nowhere and 
taking down Voldemort, but the general public is what finishes him 
off?  Hmm...

But the Match ends with Ireland winning, even though Bulgarian- 
through a very brave act- got the Snitch.  I wonder what that says 
about the ending, perhaps being pretty wishy-washy.  Even for a 
Quiddtich Match. =P

~Aldrea, who knows this gets even flimsier the farther you take it, 
but thinks the paralells with the War in the series so far and the 
beginning of the Match are interesting to think about.  And also, who 
would polish this up more, but really really has to get sleep now and 
will be gone for two days...and is stil six pages behind.