Please Jo, don't take the easy path (Re: more predictions from Jo)

[iris_ft]

No: HPFGUIDX 120510


Hi, 

There's at least one thing you can give for sure concerning "The 
Mooseming Mystery": quoting has become a rather complex exercise (A 
wrote that B wrote and then C replied
)
Well, it's better if I stick to the "Redde Caesari quae sunt 
Caesaris" rule.
So, long ago Kneasy wrote:

7. Harry's memories of the Godric's Hollow incident (PoA chap 9)
> > are interesting, particularly if you have a suspicious mind. Lily
> > is pleading with Voldy and she asks him not to 'take' Harry, but
> > to take her, kill her instead. Now 'take' can be used as an
alternative
> > for kill, as in 'take a life' but it's use here when Harry is at
the
> wrong
> > end of a wand seems a bit strange; 'kill' or 'hurt' would be a
more
> > common usage. Maybe Voldy wanted to possess Harry too.
>
And a member named Jo (by the way, should we read "Jo.sturgess" 
as "Jo points to your guess", just for the fun of making the mystery 
thicken?) replied:

> Suspicious mind, you hum it, I'll sing it.
> Maybe Voldy thought he could transfer to Harry in place of Tom,
> picking up the powers that he 'knows not' into the bargain.
>
> "You do not seek to kill me, Dumbledore? called Voldemort"
> .....stuff.....
> "We both know that there are other ways of destroying a man, Tom"
> Dumbledore said calmly".
> Knobbled from the inside out, that can't be pretty (the thumb
> prickling alone will drive you crazy).
>

Iris (I solemnly swear that my pen name doesn't hide anything but a 
fan):

Of course I know that the last word ("scar", and everything that 
comes before) has to belong to the author, and that fans have no 
right to try to add their own spice to the mixture.
However

That possibility of Voldemort "transferring to Harry in place of 
Tom" doesn't sound very original, IMVVHO (in my very, very humble 
opinion). I don't know what you think, but I would feel rather 
deceived if we happened to learn that Voldemort is actually an evil 
entity travelling through centuries, since the beginning of times, 
possessing people, making them become villains and finally leaving 
them when the moment has come to choose another mediator, or better 
said, another victim. It would not only sound like an old fashioned 
tune (we already have many stories telling us that the villain is 
actually a poor bloke who happens to be possessed by a very evil 
force), but it also would lessen the importance of personal choices. 
In other words, it would ruin one of the most interesting themes of 
the series. Can you imagine the scene? Tom Marvolo Riddle, at last 
free from his inner bad influence, and saying with a tremolo in his 
voice: "Oh, forgive me Harry, it wasn't my fault, that evil thing 
did oblige me to commit atrocities; I didn't want, I was suffering, 
but it was stronger than me"? Or the evil entity trying to control 
Harry ("Come with me and we will rule the world"), and Harry 
replying: "You failed, I will be an Auror"?
It's only a personal view, but I think that ending with the idea of 
evil as "something that comes from outside" would be rather 
frustrating, too easy, and would nearly spoil the whole series.
But I hope that JKR won't follow the easy path, and that she won't 
lessen the importance she gave to personal choices. 
Maybe that's because I love these books so much, but I'd like to see 
more than a classical ending.
Which is a paradox, if you consider that the whole series roots in 
classical culture.

May as it be, I hope "our" Jo will keep on posting on the list; her 
(his?) posts are *very* interesting.
Personal message to Madame Rowling, if she happens to be a member 
and click on my post: Merci mille fois pour ces merveilleux livres, 
et passez un Joyeux Noël. 

Amicalement,

Iris