Ironic series ending -- Ex-famous Harry?

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 46038

I had an odd dream last night that suggested to me an ironic ending to
the series: Suppose that in the end the MoM manages to keep all events
from Voldemort's rebitrh to Harry's final defeat of him completely
hushed up, or to convince the WW it was all merely the crazed
hallucinations of a lunatic boy with glasses, and the werewolves,
jailbirds, one-eyed paranoids, and obsolete old dingbats he
regularly hangs out with?  What if, in other words, the fame of
"Famous Harry Potter" ends when he actually does something to earn him
fame (defeats Voldemort alone); and perhaps the only elder wizard who
retains his credabiity in the WW at Large, and who ever comes to Harry's
defense is...

Wizard 1: Poor Harry Potter!  Who would have thought such a nice boy
could go so terribly wrong!

Wizard 2: They say he actually believes he fought and destroyed
Voldemort last year, when everyone knows he was destroyed 17 years
ago!

Wizard 1: Ah... Well... At least as the eccentric Headmaster of
Hogwarts he will be isloated and out of our hair.  The WW can be
thankful of that, anyway.

Snape: You shut up about Potter!  He is the finest and bravest boy I
ever knew!


(Are my ideas getting ever crazier as the wait for _OotP_ gets longer
and longer...?)

--
Dave