The magic power of love. Was: BANG! You're dead!

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 86361

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:

Kneasy:
> Harry is nowhere near the standard of either, but he's lucky, lucky, lucky.
> He's shown no sign of defeating Voldy and only manages to escape him
> by the intervention of outside agents (Mirror, Fawkes, wands, DD). None
> of these could have been foreseen by Voldemort. He's an umitigated
> pest, so far as Voldy is concerned. 


Geoff:
Don't forget, fortune favours the bold, even bold, unmitigated 
pests.....


Kneasy:
> Geoff, are you considering that Harry might be Voldy MkII? Or be tempted
> in that direction? That'd throw him all right. Be a neat plot twist, too.
> 
> But just what usable chinks are there in Voldy's armour? 

Geoff:
You mean, another Gollum/Frodo setup? I wonder whether JKR would use 
a similar idea, knowing that the ROTK scene is so well known? Who 
would be the Gollum to deal with Harry? He has been "pulled back" on 
occasions from rashness by Hermione or Ron and other folk, even 
Sirius who has been accused of doing the other and egging him on. 
Also, of course, Gollum doesn't stop Frodo for the sake of Frodo's 
health. He stops Frodo because /he/ wants the Ring and fulfils the 
quest merely because he is so excited that he falls over his 
shoelaces and unfortunately falls the wrong way.

Chinks? Well, we know the first problem with meeting Harry was that 
Voldemort lost his body. That was a bit of a setback to a student 
taking a PhD in Immortality. He also seems to have a measure of 
tunnel vision, not unlike Sauron and Melkor/Morgoth before him in 
that he wants to be top dog and will do anything to get there but 
overlooks the possiblity of things going on immediately under his 
nose orchestrated by folk so far removed from his ideas as to 
actually want to help each other to stop him from his policy of 
enlightened self-aggrandisement.

Perhaps your theory of Harry providing a distraction while someone 
with a large hammer tiptoes up behind him could be right. How does 
that chime with the prophecy?

Geoff (very tongue-in-cheek)