[HPforGrownups] Re: When worlds collide .

[feklar]

No: HPFGUIDX 113390

Carolyn

> A more sinister variant is that in killing Voldemort, Harry not only
> dies himself, but magic dies with him. This would also mean the two
> worlds need not be reconciled. Many people have wondered whether this
> is what the two bits of broken prophecy mean, that came from the
> smashed orbs at the MoM battle:


feklar

Oh, feh.  I hope not.  That's one of the oldest tropes of fantasy novels I
always hated as a kid:  magic must disappear as the Age of Man(tm) begins.
On the positive side, that trope usally involved the magic users physically
going somewhere -- Avalon, Atlantis, the Gray Havens -- and the WW doesn't
really have anywhere to go.  Unless they all get sucked into the past or an
alternate dimension...neither of which really fits into the story very well.

If the WW did lose magic, the integration might be a lot like the post-USSR
integration of East and West Germany, with a lot of the same conflicts and
resentments.

Feklar