[HPforGrownups] Re: JKR Chat "The Crucial and Central Question"

[bufo_viridis at interia.pl]

No: HPFGUIDX 92344

 
> Kneasy replied:
> > ***And DD will sacrifice Harry if it becomes necessary - which is 
> > more important, Harry or the WW? No problem with that answer. DD 
> > has been fighting Voldy since before Harry was born, he knows the 
> > struggle is about much more than Harry (though I sometimes have 
> > doubts about whether some of the fans do).*** [emphasis added by 
> > Susan] 
> <snip> And no, I don't think he's *arranged* the ending, but I 
> > wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't already *know* the ending, or 
> > perhaps the optimal way to achieve it. 
> 
> Susan:
> One question remains for me.  If DD knows the ending, then surely he 
> knows whether Harry survives or not?  Does DD believe the prophecy?  
> If he does, and if we've understood it properly, then how could it 
> ever come to DD's needing to sacrifice Harry to the greater cause of 
> saving the WW/defeating Voldy?  Doesn't it have to be Harry & Co. 
> winning or Voldy & Co. winning?  Or do you have a different take on 
> the prophecy--that there might be some wiggle room for someone other 
> than Harry as the vanquisher?

Dumble may "know" the ending as "the best and the most convenient setting of a last battle, with such and such persons in such and such roles, and the persons in question should be in such and such frame of mind and properly prepared." All these arranged, the outcome is still open - because something may always happen.
So no, he is not going to substitute anybod for the vanquisher, but for vanquisher to fullfil his role, some other conditions must be fullfilled.

Cheers, Viridis
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