[HPforGrownups] How hard would it be. . .(was: Re: who is gonna die?)

[artsylynda at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 53820

Risti:

> Voldemort knows he can't touch 
> Harry when he's with his relatives... So let's get rid of the 
> relatives.  Back in that fateful Oprah interview that kid did say 
> that JKR told him something about the wizarding world mixing with the 
> muggle world because of Voldemort.  You want to talk about 
> character's out living their plot purposes?  It's pretty obvious that 
> with Voldemort back in town, he won't wait all patient like for Harry 
> to have a miserable summer off from adventure.
> 

I really like your reasoning here, and it works well from many aspects.  
Harry will be "set adrift" without the protection he had from those relatives 
(whatever protection they were for him).  The people who care about Harry 
will feel badly that he's lost his last living relatives and all they ever 
said or thought about those people were bad things.  Harry will have to face 
the fact that he resented them, even hated them, all those years, and 
probably deservedly so -- but since Harry is such a decent person at heart, 
he will probably feel guilty for not having done a better job of getting 
along with them (despite the fact there was no way on Earth he COULD get 
along with them, and he realizes that too -- an endless circle of frustration 
and guilt).  The flaw in this analysis is that they aren't fans of Harry's.  
That one qualification bumps the Dursleys out of contention as the victims, 
although I really like your idea and how it would play out.

BTW, is there any way of seeing/hearing/reading the Oprah Winfrey interview 
with the cast? I keep hearing about it, but I've never seen it and would like 
to.  Thanks!

Lynda 
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"Don't let  the Muggles get you down." Ron Weasley PoA


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