Will Hogwarts be Attacked?

[tipgardner]

No: HPFGUIDX 92843


> > 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.   

Not saying I disagree, but that is a clue, not textual evidence.  
Crumbling from within is not being attacked from without.

> > 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?

Agreed.  It does seem reasonable that DD and staff would have done 
something with the Chamber after CoS.
 
> > 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.

It would split the principal characters, however, that is a classic 
plot device in fantasy and faery tale literature (LOTR, etc.).

Carol wrote:
> 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

See above.

I feel that the story probably will have some sort of climatic battle 
scene because that has become the convention, but it hardly seems 
like LV's style.  When I read fan fiction that has large public 
battles or similar plot lines, it feels off to me because LV is 
sneaky and cunning and also because I think he plans to eventually 
become the leader of the wizarding world in his fantasy of success 
and thus needs to destroy his enemies and then be in a position to 
take over.  

Tip