It's the middle was Re: How does book five *end*

[pippin_999 <foxmoth@qnet.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49973

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "shinesse 
<dehavensangel at h...>" <dehavensangel at h...> wrote:
 IMO I think 
> its in the middle. DD is telling him all to prepare him for what 
> lies ahead. You can't fight the good fight without knowing all the 
> facts. 
> 

I agree, it's from the middle. It's unlikely to be in the Hospital 
Wing, since Dumbledore tells Harry to sit down. If it were the HW 
then Harry would be in bed or else Rowling would have to tell us 
what he was sitting on. 

I think it's Dumbledore's office. Also, it's a standard plot 
convention that in the middle of the story  the hero receives 
unexpected information  which both changes his perspective 
and sets the stage for the final confrontation with the villain. 
Rowling has followed this convention in all four books. It is a 
common twist in mystery stories for this information to be 
*wrong* , of course. <g>

Book One -- Harry learns  Fluffy is guarding the package from 
Gringotts. 162/309
Book Two--180/341 -- Harry learns the chamber is real and has 
been opened before 
Book Three--205/435 Harry learns Sirius betrayed his parents -- 
he didn't
Book Four 333/734-- Sirius tells Harry he thinks the Tri-wizard 
entry is a DE plot to kill him (true) , and Karkaroff is in on it -- 
(apparently not)

Since the  revelation in book 5 is likely to change Harry's 
perspective on the whole Voldemort conflict, perhaps one way to 
estimate  of the length of the series as a whole would be to 
count the number of pages from the start of Book One to the 
revelation in Book Five, and multiply by two.

Pippin 
page numbers from the American hardcovers