Will Harry muse or be too busy fighting? (was: When Harry met Sally)

[huntergreen_3]

No: HPFGUIDX 107496

SSSusan wrote:
>> I wonder, though, about the attacks flying thick & fast. I would
love to hear others' opinions about whether we will, indeed,
*finally* see some battle action or whether that will be held off yet
again, 'til Book 7. It seems time for it, but I thought it was time
for it after the graveyard scene/Harry & DD's announcement of Voldy's
return at the end of 4th year. Yet we were strung along for nearly
the whole of Book 5, with Voldy still lying low, and all that talk
about a weapon, until we finally saw one battle and one death in the
MoM.

Not that I'm necessarily anxious for carnage, you understand, but it
surprised me that there was so little in OoP. <<

HunterGreen:
I really hope that *something* happens in book six to start to 
explain why there was (and still is), SO much fear about Voldemort. 
So far he hasn't really done much of anything, well, not anything 
really frightening. He was supposed to rise 'greater and more 
terrible than he was before'. I wonder if that will actually happen 
or not.
I was surprised too by the inaction of Voldemort and the DE's in 
OotP. I can almost see Dumbledore hiding the prophecy just as a ploy 
to distract Voldemort, (since if he was, it worked REALLY well). The 
myterious deaths, people getting imperioued, people disappearing, all 
of that was happening in GoF when he barely had any power at all -- I 
figured that was all a warmup, and then in OotP, he was being pretty 
quiet aside from trying to get the prophecy. The only other things he 
did were get the DE's free from Azkaban (of course they were back in 
there by the end) and get the dementers on his side. It appears he's 
*getting ready* for something. I hope there's some action in book 
six, because if its saved for book seven, it'll seem like a cheat.

Book five was odd because it was so different in tone than the 
others. The others were leading toward a somewhat obvious or 
predictable ending. In book one, it leads to the trio saving the 
stone, book leads to the chamber of secrets and stopping the heir of 
slytherin, book three leads to the confrontation with Sirius Black, 
and book four leads to the end of tri-wizard tournament and finding 
out whatever Voldemort wanted Harry for. I suppose you could guess 
that the ending of book five would involve the WW finding out the 
truth about Voldemort, but a final battle in the MoM? Voldemort was 
looking for a prophecy the whole time? What...? That was sort of out 
of nowhere. Not good or bad, but the tone of OotP was very different 
than the other (IMO), more focused on Harry dealing with himself 
rather than an overwhelming mystery to solve or something *specific* 
to focus on.