Harry to skip out on Hogwarts before the end?

[newdevilry9]

No: HPFGUIDX 70363


"newdevilry9" <ginaann9 at a...>  wrote:
> > What if Fred & George's departure is a way of setting Harry up to 
> not 
> > finish all 7 years at Hogwarts? ....

Hedgehog wrote:
> OK then, here it goes.  I can't imagine that JKR, the woman who got 
> kids reading something thicker than a comic book (thicker than my 
> phonebook!), would advocate dropping out of school by having Harry 
> do so.
>.... Perhaps, Remus will return and ultimately be 
> revealed as James Potter a la Swithching Spell?


You make a very good and obvious argument that I hadn't thought of.  
Though, not that any of this is clearly formulated in my mind, but I 
certainly did not mean that JKR would have him decide he's had enough 
of formal education a la Fred & George.  I just think that they 
opened up a door.  

It wouldn't even necessarily be that Harry decided to leave as much 
as he is(or, they all are) forced to leave (something happens in the 
course of the war?).  So it wouldn't be portrayed as a positive thing 
to leave school.  

I would think that something along these lines could be more likely 
in Book/Year 7 than 6.  I also feel like the timeline that the books, 
thus far, have been built on (the whole school year leading up to the 
final week where there is some major showdown) might have to be a 
little different for Book/Year 7.  Being that there will inevitably 
be a Final Showdown and whatever happens will set Harry up for life 
(hopefully) after Hogwarts.  Maybe not though?  

I'm just not feeling the Lupin=James thing, I agree with the many who 
have done point-by-point arguments against this theory.  But it 
really might just be that I love Lupin for Lupin.  I don't want him 
to be anyone else.

NewDev