Book 7 predictions

soccerboyatut2004 pbyrd at mail.utexas.edu
Wed May 12 15:15:21 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 98158

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> Pippin:
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>But what he really 
> wants, what he's always wanted, is a family who loves him. 
> Call me a shipper, call me a hopeless 
> romantic, but when he's given up the wizarding world to save it, 
> and   it seems he's lost everything, there'll turn out to be one 
> witch who thinks, like Arthur Weasley, that the Muggle world does 
> not lack for wonder, and besides, any world with Harry in it is 
> magical enough.
> Pippin

StrongBad comments:
Sorry.  I just don't buy it.  No way he returns to the muggle world 
by some never used magic spell, or something, as a sacrifice.  
Squib?  Maybe.  But not returning him to the Muggle world 
entirely.  He knows too much.  People know too much about him.  
Wouldn't work.  
 
Now stripping him of all his powers (all of which came from Voldie 
in this theory), that makes more sense to me.  He will have to deal 
with the realization that without Voldies powers, he was never 
special, never a real wizard.  His inability to do magic will be hard 
enough to swallow, and he'll be capable to exist without it due to 
growing up on Privet.
 
I think the loss of power will come to fruition via his murder of 
Voldie.  Voldie couldn't kill Harry at Godric's Hollow because of 
the Ancient magic his mother performed.  IMO, Voldie himself never 
could have killed Harry (or vice versa) until that charm was lifted 
or equalized.  There exists literary correlations to that premise 
everywhere.

DD said the charm was in Harry's blood, from his mother.  Then 
Voldie got Harry's blood at the end of the GoF.  Hence the gleam of 
triumph in DD's eyes.  He now knows Voldie is now vulnerable to die a 
human death, as Harry is (an aside though).  

Harry will SOMEHOW kill Voldie at the end of Book 7, and in the 
process heal the scar on his forehead, and destroy his magical 
powers in the process; and probably know about the loss of powers 
before he does it.  That is his sacrifice.  No longer famous, 
special, or magical.  Just normal and forgotten.  His sacrifice.
 
In the end he will get the family he wants, via the Weasley's and 
his better half discovered in later books (no shipping wars here).  
JKR will not turn her hero off completely to the world he knows, the 
world she created.  There will be a sacrifice, but life or muggle-
hood it will not be.  IMHO.

StrongBad







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