Timing of the final confrontation (was RE: HP as Morality Play )

[dzeytoun]

No: HPFGUIDX 114800


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" > 
> Actually, this is  a VERY good point. You are right, I kind of 
> started thinking that Harry also knows that the time of final 
> confrontation comes and has to devote everything to the fight.
> 
> I have to think about it, but on the other hand the War already 
> started, so Harry has to know that it may happen soon.

Well, I don't know that it necessarily follows that the confrontation 
has a high probability of being soon just because the war has 
started.  Granted, it's more likely now than it was before.  But DD 
doesn't seem to believe it has a high chance of happening anytime in 
the near future, judging by the fact that he was/is placing no 
emphasis so far on any special training for Harry, other than the 
defensive case of Occlumency.  His distancing of himself from Harry 
all year also bespeaks that he doesn't think Harry needs to worry 
about a final confrontation just yet -- or at least that isn't the 
chief thing to worry about.  We don't know how much the Order knows 
about the contents of the prophecy, but we have little evidence that 
any of them were particularly worried about Harry having something 
crucial to do in the next couple of years.  Only Sirius seems to have 
been uneasy, and that seems more to have been for Harry's safety and 
mental well being than anything else.

At this particular juncture, my guess is that DD and the Order (those 
of them in the know, anyway) expect that the final battle is still 
some years down the road, and that Harry will have plenty of time to 
finish Hogwarts and complete training (probably Auror training) to 
meet the prophecy.  I would not be surprised if they actually 
*discourage* Harry from going all out to prepare himself for battling 
Voldemort.  I can easily see them *insisting* that Harry do such 
things as take Hogsmeade trips, play Quidditch, etc, arguing that, 
pressing as the needs of the WW are, Harry meeting Voldemort too soon 
would be an absolute disaster.

Dzeytoun