[HPforGrownups] Books 6 & 7 - no longer school stories?

[Lady Macbeth]

No: HPFGUIDX 99584

 Wanda wrote:
Book 5 took the action outside Hogwarts for big sections of the
story: Grimauld place, St. Mungo's, the MoM. This pushing out from
the Hogwarts "home base" had started in GoF, but not nearly to the
same extent.  I'm wondering if it's going to be impossible for
Rowling to really contain the story at Hogwarts anymore, and if
we'll be seeing the main characters moving outside the school for a
lot of the action in the remaining two books.  In a way, this would
make sense, as one of the storylines is about how the Voldemort
threat is breaking out into the wider wizarding world, and even
further into the muggle world (though that isn't as convincingly
presented).  I don't see how Harry can remain at the centre of the
story if he's stuck at Hogwarts all the time; despite the MANY pages
devoted to Umbridge's nastiness and the burdens of exam schedules,
not much of importance actually happened AT Hogwarts in Book 5.  Is
Rowling going to have to invent one pretext after another for Harry
to escape in order to fight Voldemort somewhere else?

Lady Macbeth replied:

I don't know that she'll have to "invent" a lot of pretexts at all - logic
dictates that if Voldemort truly is bent on taking back control of the
wizarding world and later the muggle world, he's not going to care too much
about disrupting classes at a secondary school.  ^_^;  Undoubtedly, with
many of his Death Eaters imprisoned he'll be looking to recruit once again,
and we've already gone over a number of candidates from Slytherin house -
not all of which will graduate until Harry graduates.  Also, who's to say
there aren't potential recruits in the other houses?

Even that aside, life in general is going to be stressful and disrupted for
many families.  I am actually seeing Dumbledore and the rest of his staff
having a hard time keeping the school running as normal during the next two
years, rather than having things that would pull Harry out of the school
come as a "surprise" of any kind.  This is particularly true when one
considers that the biggest threats Voldemort perceives to his power -
Dumbledore and Harry - are both well entrenched in the school normally.

-Lady Macbeth


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