Possibilities (was; What if it's a *Dud*?)

[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 51888

David speculates;

>>Or how about this: one of the old crowd goes on polyjuice as a DE, so we 
all think the DE is really the member of the OC. <<

Do you know, the way polyjuice has been set up this might actually work. If 
polyjuice duplicates the state of the original subject *exactly*, as it seems 
to have done for Crouch/Moody, then polyjuicing as one of the DEs would very 
probably *include the Dark Mark!* (a job for Sirius Black?)

I rather agree that it is quite possible that there will be no face-to-face 
with Voldemort next time round. If we are invoking symetry (usually a 
mistake, but sometimes justifiable) the big confrontation where our side 
loses and has to run for it will be the climax of book 6 and the big 
confrontation where they win, the climax of book 7. 

As to the book's being a dud... I would say that from an objective standpoint 
this is very unlikely. But books are recieved *subjectively*. And there is no 
question that the long interval has raised expectations to an unrealistic 
level. (If, some of the proposals being touted on this list are actually 
being considered seriously, is any indication.) So it is very well within the 
realm of possibility that the book, however good it may be, will fail to 
fulfil expectations and the reviews may suffer for that.

-JOdel


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