The Power that LV Knows Not (was Ch. 30 Grawp)

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No: HPFGUIDX 117341


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Smythe, Boyd T {FLNA}" 
<boyd.t.smythe at f...> wrote:
> 
> boyd:

<massive snippage>

> So when book 7 is released, don't be surprised when a foursome of 
creatures
> makes the difference, perhaps making way for Harry's last act. 
After all, it
> was Harry that brought them all together in the first place!

Marianne:

Hmmm. I wonder if you might be on to something.  There has been 
recent discussion (and probably threads back in the dim mists of time 
that I don't remember any more) about Harry as DD's tool or weapon 
for the destruction of Dumbledore.  About how Harry always had needed 
some sort of intervention of an adult to accomplish whatever task is 
at hand in each of the 5 books.  And there has also been some recent 
speculation that, at the end, Harry will come up a plan or a 
discovery that will aid in the defeat of Voldy and the DEs that will 
be totally his own, and may well be something so unexpected that none 
of the older, wiser wizards will have thought of it.

JKR certainly seems to be heading in the direction of bringing these 
other beings more to the forefront.  I suspect that she will more 
fully develop a goblin subplot in HBP.  Then, we will have all of 
these beings in place for the final showdown in Book 7. 

Boyd:
> One question: what does it mean that the MoM fountain did not 
include a
> giant?

Marianne:  

I'd say that in traditional wizard view, giants are beings that are 
not at all useful to wizards and that most wizards think of giants as 
no more than brutish beasts.  Therefore, they are not seen as worthy 
of representation in the fountain.  Goblins and elves perform a 
function for wizards, even if they are not as enraptured with wizards 
as wizards seem to believe.  And centaurs certainly have an obvious 
intellect, even though they don't have a consistent role in providing 
any kind of service for wizards that I can remember.  Maybe centaurs 
are represented because of their prophetic skills.

Marianne