[HPforGrownups] Beginning of OotP (Re: How hard would it be..)

[Trond Michelsen]

No: HPFGUIDX 53834

On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 01:20:01AM +0000, GulPlum wrote:
> Absolutely. As may people have suggested, now that he's back, Voldemort 
> isn't going to wait until 1st September to make his presence felt. 

I don't agree with that. The end of GoF is such a set up for a conflict
with The Ministry (Fudge) and Dumbledore. The whole premise for this
conflict is that it can't be proven that Voldemort has returned. I think
I'm going to be a little bit disappointed if this entire conflict just
goes away by a very public stunt by Voldemort in the first chapter. Of
course, Fudge would probably not admit the return of Voldemort, even if
a few people here and there should happen to disappear, so Voldy doesn't
exactly need to crawl to stay under his radar. But, I think this rift in
the "good side" will take up most of the book, and that means that Voldy
will have to work mostly unnoticed for a long time. 

Hmm, let's see, I suspect that Percy will be the one to alert Fudge that
there's a conspiracy working against him. He may or may not know that
his parents is a part of that conspiracy. If he knows they are, then
he'll only tell Fudge if he himself is absolutely convinced that Voldy
hasn't returned, and that his parents' action is very harmful to the
wizard society. He'll only realize his mistake when it's too late.

My guess is that the first "public" appearance of Voldemort will be
during the attack on Azkaban, close to the end of the book. I'm also
guessing that Hagrid arrives with the Giants just in the nick of time,
and they're able to stop most of the Death Eaters from escaping. I also
expect Hagrid (or Dumbledore) to be killed in this battle. I expect
Voldemort to have a very strong upper hand when the book ends, which is
why I'm not ruling out Dumbledore as this book's victim.

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  // Trond Michelsen
\X/  mike at crusaders.no