The Ending

[bohcoo]

No: HPFGUIDX 85284

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Laura Ingalls Huntley 
<lhuntley at f...> wrote:


Laura, post #85264: 
> I don't know if you've read it, but the fanfic "Come Together" by 
> Granger is written on a similar theme.  


Bohcoo replies:
No, unfortunately, I don't read fanfic -- yet. I am so enthralled 
with the staggering analyses and theories presented here that I find 
my thoughts and opinions winging around all over the spectrum of 
possibilities. My thought of Harry and Voldemort melding together at 
the final showdown into some sort of whole was prompted by 
Dumbledore's statement, "But in essence divided," which Harry and LV 
are at the moment. That statement presented, to my mind, the 
possibility of some version of unity to come, even if that unity 
destroys both Harry and LV as individuals when it happens.

I also have gotten the half-formed (okay, half-baked) notion that the 
Boy Who Lived might not have been Harry at all. Perhaps Harry Potter 
was killed that night along with his parents -- and LV transferred 
enough of himself into the baby to survive. So, then, LV exists in 
two places, "in essence divided," and Harry Potter will not be killed 
in the end because he is already gone.

Just one theory, among oh so many whirling around in my imagination. 

We hear of Neville (badly) performing a Switching Spell and landing 
his ears on a cactus -- why couldn't Lilly have performed a similar 
spell, leaving the baby with her eyes, literally, as others have 
mentioned? It always says, "You have your mother's eyes," but, "You 
look remarkably like your father." Now, not once does it say, "Your 
eyes look just like your mother's." Isn't that interesting?

So, the Boy Who Lived could be some portion, some version of Tom 
Riddle who sees the world through Harry Potter's mother's eyes. 
Perhaps JKR is playing with the conceptions of perception, in all the 
ways the word can be interpreted. 

Am I convinced of any of this? Nope. But it sure does make me 
wonder. . . Mind candy.



Laura further states, #85264: 
> JKR  has repeatedly stated that she does not intend to write any 
books after the seventh, thereby negating the possibility of a story 
arc that occurs *after* the climatic scene in which Voldemort is 
destroyed (which naturally occurs at the end of the seventh book).



Bohcoo repies:
Quite true, but she has also said that she will provide some sense 
of "closure," some idea of what happens to "the ones who survive."
So, I am assuming an epilogue that presents the framework for futures 
for many of the characters and situations, leaving us with arcs 
galore for her fans to fanfic to their heart's content. 

Not to mention, as I have stated elsewhere, I think JKR will 
publish "Hogwarts, A History" later on. The book has been mentioned 
so much throughout the series and it would be a wonderful way for her 
to include the Harry Potter story summary as part of that lore. (Or, 
should I say, "lure?")

Warm regards,
Bohcoo