Will Hogwarts be Attacked?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 92779

> Mandy:
> Absolutely.  I believe it'll be attacked for certain.  Look at the 
> clues already in place:
> 
> The Sorting Hat said that a unification of the Houses must happen or 
> the school will "...crumble from within."  Disaster if the school is 
> also being threatened from the outside.  Right now, just about the 
> only thing, imo, that will bring Slytherin in line with the other 3 
> houses, is if Hogwarts and the live of the children themselves are 
> threatened.  Of course the children of the Death Eaters will be on LV 
> side, but not all Slytherins are DE offspring.   
> 
> The Chamber of Secrets is a dangerous weak spot for DD and his allies 
> inside the school.  As is the forbidden Forest, a haven for Dark 
> Creatures.  How can LV not use them both to his advantage?
> 
> Most of the action in the books so far has taken place while Harry is 
> at Hogwarts, and I don't see the formula changing in the last 2 
> books.  JKR can't have Harry leaving school to fight in the war for 
> it would scatter all the principal characters. But she can have the 
> war come to Harry and Co., at school. This also allows for not only 
> the trio to be present, but also include everyone else; DD, Snape, 
> Hagrid, McGonigal, Draco, Neville, Luna, Ginny, all of Dumbledore's 
> Army, etc. etc. etc.  Plus the attack will bring to Hogwarts; LV, 
> Bellatrix, Wormtail, other DE not in Azkaban, the Dementors, Dragons, 
> Giants, and other Dark creatures in LV army.
> 
> I can't see how the school would not be involved.  Roll on book 6!!


All good points (although I see hope for Theo Nott's being on the good
side despite his father's being a Death Eater), but don't you think
the big battle has to occur in Book Seven? It seems to me that it
would be anticlimactic to have it in Book Six--unless Book Seven
involves Harry in a heroic one-on-one struggle against LV, which I
don't think could be sustained for a whole book--and which I don't
want to see because I want the whole group involved till the last
moment when, finally, it's Harry's turn to fight alone.

Carol