A Dark Lord or _The_ Dark Lord? was Re: How will Harry win in the end? (long)

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lizvega2 wrote:
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If Harry defeats LV, then all of his misguided psycho followers will
just wither back into the wood work, like they did before.

Eustace_Scrubb goes off on his own tangent:

If we assume (I do) that Harry does defeat LV (at what cost, we do not
know), what does this mean to the future of the WW?  Is LV just
another in long line of powerful dark wizards, his most recent
predecessor being Grindelwald?  Does every generation of the WW have
to fight its own Dark Lord?  Is one of LV's followers his successor? 
Did Grindelwald's followers (I assume he had some) just fade back into
the woodwork or were some ready and waiting for their next leader, LV?

Or is LV somehow THE dark lord, the one whose defeat will forever
change the WW?  Is HP vs. LV literally the war to end all wars?

Just wondering, and wondering what others think,

Eustace_Scrubb