The only one he ever feared?

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No: HPFGUIDX 117302


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Eustace_Scrubb" <dk59us at y...> wrote:
> 
> The defeat of Voldy=the end of Magic as we know it theory _has_ been
> proposed (Kneasy?).  Someone who keeps track of post numbers (Geoff
> B.?) might remember when.
> 
> But there's another interpretation:  LV's looking for immortality,
> right?  If he succeeds, maybe "none will come after" because he'll
> _always_ be there...at least as scary as the end-of-the-WW theory.
> 

Yeah, I have mentioned that as a possible outcome a couple of times
over the past year. Nobody seemed interested - mostly, I think, because
they didn't want this fantasy to be killed off. The end of the WW, the 
death of JKR's wonderful playground? Horrors! How can this be?!
Though as Jo has said she doesn't believe in magic and resolutely 
refuses to consider the possibility of sequels, well - it does give one 
food for thought.

Similarly the possibility that Voldy isn't destroyed; though 'destruction'
can take different forms, not all of them as comprehensive as others.
His body will go, if only to save Bloomsbury's favourite author from
being lynched, but it could be that his spirit remains - the antithesis
of Hope from Pandora's Box - to wander the world fomenting trouble,
strife and discord whenever he/it gets an opportunity.

I  agree that the two prophecy fragments could well be important to 
the story. It's part of my 'think laterally' approach. 
Voldy is after a prophecy which he thinks is very important. But we
know that Sybill's burblings don't say anything which would justify
this frantic activity - in fact it's fairly mundane stuff; forecasts a
challenger, one will kill the other etc. So what? Do you think he hasn't
figured that out already? He's supposed to be smart and he's run up 
against Harry often enough to see him as an obstacle  that'll need to
be disposed of - sooner rather than later if he wants a free run.

But there are other Seers, other prophecies. Thousands of 'em judging
by the Ministry storage. And it's probable that only a minority concern
the running of the 3.30 at Epsom. They'll be about something a bit more
important.
In Harry's lifetime what's the most important thing? The Voldy Wars. 
The most important events for 100 years.
I'd expect more than one prophecy to point the way. And if that's  right
then Voldy might have been after the wrong globe. A couple of posts
in the past week have wondered if this whole farrago hasn't been a
decoy ploy, protecting something much more important than Sybill's
globe.

At the beginning of OoP there's talk of a 'weapon'. So what is it and
where is it? Some of us write about Weapon!Harry, but it wasn't Harry
the Order was guarding, it was something in the Dept. of Mysteries.
Why waste manpower on a grotty old globe that won't help Voldy
in the slightest and can't even be taken off the shelf by anyone except
Voldy or Harry? No reason to at all - unless someone wants to convince
someone else that it's important.

Of course, I've got a vested interest in this sort of thing;  convoluted
plotting, dirty work at the cross-roads, sneaky  stuff. Plus wondering
if it's the globe-like bubbles from Droobles Gum that Agnes is
trying to bring to mind and communicate to Neville. Then there's
the silvery orb that is Lupin's Boggart. Is it the moon? Or a globe?
Ah! Paranoia can be so much fun!

Kneasy