OOP: Predicting the end

[Gregory Lynn]

No: HPFGUIDX 62841

Of the series that is.

I have two thoughts which may or may not be contradictory.

What if Harry *chooses* to lose and somehow by this choice wins?  I know that doesn't make a whole lot of sense but it goes something like this.  At some point near the end, Harry has Voldemort right where he wants him, ready to destroy with a curse or a shove or a kick in the shins or whatever...and Harry doesn't do it.  Remember when Neville was being crucio'ed, Harry didn't hesitate to turn over the prophecy.  Didn't even have to think about it.  And Harry seems more concerned about the prospect of having to kill Voldemort than potentially dying himself.  Harry doesn't like to hurt other people.

Now have you read/seen Les Miserables?  There's a bit where a cop, Javert, is chasing the hero of the story, Jean Valjean, but Javert is captured and turned over to Valjean for disposal.  Javert thinks it's the end but Valjean lets him go.  Javert cannot reconcile his overwhelming desire to bring Valjean to justice with his life debt to Valjean and commits suicide.  Might there be something along those lines?  We have to figure the power that Harry has that Voldemort doesn't is love or something thereabouts.  Compassion is a part of the whole love spectrum.  Could it be that when Harry lets Voldemort live, Voldemort can't live with that, having gotten just a smidge of a capacity for love when he used Harry's blood?

And thought two--the bell jar.

Perhaps Harry and Voldemort are doomed to repeat their lives over and over again like they're in the bell jar.  I don't know that there's a whole lot of logical canonical evidence for this theory but there *IS* a whole lot of repetition in the series.  Every book follows the same basic path...Harry at the Dursleys, Harry visits some magical place, Harry goes to Hogwarts, Harry tussles with bad guys, Harry goes back to the Dursleys.  In addition, there's the endless stream of new DADA professors which is a kind of repetition.  Over and over and over again, a new professor.  And, of course, the repeating time concept has already been done in POA with the time turner.
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Gregory Lynn


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