lend me your extendable ears

[mooseming]

No: HPFGUIDX 101756

in her post 101404 Tina wrote:
<snip>
>From J.K. Rowling site, the rumours section:
""""Book six is going to be called 'Harry Potter and the Green Flame
Torch' or 'the Mountain of Fantasy' and book seven is going to be
called 'Harry Potter and the Fortress of Shadows' or 'the Forest of
Shadows'
JKR: Not even close! Who makes these up?! And this green torch
business seems to be cropping up everywhere. Do you really think
getting rid of Voldemort would be that easy?""""

Maybe she let it slip, maybe I'm reading too much into it, but it
seems she asks us if we think getting rid of Voldemort would involve
a green flame torch, except that's the supposed title for book six,
not seven!

Yes, that's my theory: Harry will defeat Voldemort in book six. 
<snip>

Tina, I *adore* this!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a devious mind you have (grin)!

Your post started me thinking that in finishing off Voldy something
could be unleashed in Harry that makes his internal conflict alone
powerful enough to drive the final book. That 'essence divided' stuff
perhaps. However, the conflict still has to have form, so I got to
thinking where will I find an antagonist to act out Harry's story with
him. Well that's not too difficult is it? Please step forward Severus
Snape!

Then *I* got devious... what if Snape finished off Voldy thus
depriving Harry of revenge, justice, closure? What if Snape got the
glory?  Perhaps Harry doubts his motives because he alone witnesses
Snape destroying not only Voldy but, unnecessarily in Harry's opinion,
whatever is left of Tom Riddle too?

Picture the scene

June
Early Evening
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
The much speculated about cemetery
Snape looks on smugly as Harry Potter gives his 

Graveside Eulogy for Tom Riddle 
(Not all my own work!)

Friends, Hogwartians, Magical countrymen, lend me your extendable ears;
I come to bury Tom Riddle, not to praise him;
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interréd with their bones

So let it be with Riddle
. The noble Snape
Hath told you Riddle was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Riddle answered it
.
Here, under leave of Snape and the rest,

You all did pity Tom once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?
O judgement! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason
. 

Harry turns and walks into the sunset.

We await book 7!

What if Harry believes all other men have lost their reason? What if
Harry convinces himself that Snape has ambitions to be the new big
bad? What if no one will back Harry in his suspicions? Not Ron and
Hermione who have discovered loves young dream. Not even DD who makes
Snape the new DADA teacher now danger is passed. One manboy stands
alone facing his enemy, his past and his destiny, possibly the destiny
of all Wizard kind....

Oh I feel a Morricone score coming on......

Regards
Jo