[HPforGrownups] Re: End of Harry Potter Series

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 44725

GulPlum writes:

> On the other hand, I fear that JKR just might be going down a road just
> like this. Sorry, I can't find it right now, but a couple of weeks ago I
> was looking for something else in the archives of JKR's interviews, when I
> was shocked (in this context) to read JKR's reply to a question along the
> lines of "do you believe in magic?". In her answer, she said something
like
> "no, I don't, and that will be very clear once people have had the chance
> to read all seven books". Someone better than I at searching the archives
> may be able to produce the exact quote, but the impression I got was that
> at the end of the series, the wizarding world will be shown to be
non-existant.
>
> I just hope I completely misunderstood what she was trying to say. :-)

Ah, I remember that.  I, however, got something different out of it.  They
were actually talking about how she could believe in God and write about
magic so to speak.  The exact quote is as follows:

Evan: You do believe in God.
JKR: Yeah.  Yeah.
Evan: In magic and . . .
JKR: Magic in the sense that it happens in my books, no, I don't believe.  I
don't believe in that.  No.  No.  This is so frustrating.  Again, there is
so much I would like to say, and come back when I've written book seven.
But then maybe you won't need to even say it 'cause you'll have found it out
anyway.  You'll have read it.

Here's what I got from that.  Whatever happens in the end, magic won't solve
it.  Harry will not pick up his wand and AK Voldemort into oblivion.
Throughout the HP series, the truest deepest desires cannot be fulfilled by
magic.  Magic cannot bring James and Lily back. Magic cannot truly protect
Harry from Voldemort.  The only thing thus far that has protected Harry from
Voldemort is love.  Yes, I know we could go into the ancient magic thing,
but a part of me wants to believe it was plain and simple, pure love.  And
the power of love is possibly the strongest real magic.  It makes people do
things they would never do otherwise.  Perhaps this is the sort of magic JKR
does believe in.  It is, in a sense, magical.  So it could be that in the
end magic won't fix anything.  Magic won't rid the world of Voldemort.  But
love, sacrifice, the true human emotions will.  How, you'll have to ask JKR.
:)  Whether Harry gives up his magical powers to rid Voldemort of his, or
something else, I don't know.  But I think that it will have a lot less to
do with powerful wizard magic than with the human spirit.  And that is where
Harry has the advantage over Voldemort.

Richelle