The Final Showdown

[dcgmck]

No: HPFGUIDX 109348

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "" <theadimail at y...> wrote:

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dcgmck:
I'm not disagreeing with your foregoing prediction, but I just want 
to comment on this one ancillary thought:

theadimail wrote: 

>   Some other predictions:
>   Harry will kill Bellatrix in the sixth book.

dcgmck:

Bellatrix belongs to Neville.  Her fate is his right to determine, 
since she is the one who determined his fate by incapacitating his 
parents, leaving him to the not so tender mercies of his grandmother 
and other relatives.  There's no other narrative reason for him to be 
growing stronger and more aggressive at this time.  He has, after 
all, been with Harry and Co. since PS/SS when they first met on the 
train, got sorted into Gryffindor, found the Forbidden Room, served 
detention in the Forbidden Forest, and won enough points to overset 
Slytherin for the first time in seven years.  Books 2-4 show 
Neville's timidity being reinforced by his ongoing academic 
failures.  He continues to lurk around the edges of the tale, seeming 
to turn a bit of a corner at the GoF Winter Ball when Ginny agrees to 
be his date.  That seems to mark a turn in Neville's development, as 
it does for so many young teens.  His early social success seems to 
mark the beginning of his growing self-esteem and self-confidence, 
even as Harry's arguable social failure is paralleled by his 
increasingly darker world view (for obvious if unrelated reasons).

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>   That the first thing DUmbledore will want to do is to reclaim his 
> arrested Death Eaters is obvious but he has only dememntors at his 
> command. I think they will mass attack on some soft target... 
> Platform 93/4 perhaps?
>   

dcgmck:

Do you perhaps mean Voldemort?