Turning Point? (was Re: Dumbledore the General)

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No: HPFGUIDX 124357



> Lupinlore: 
> I agree, Nora.  Unfortunately, I am rather torn as to what we should
> expect in HBP about these issues.  While, as I have said in other
> posts, I would love for some time to be spent dealing with all the
> issues this raises, I'm not totally confident that will be the case.
> 
> In HBP JKR has set herself a great challenge as a writer.  That is,
> how will she deal with all of the ramifications of OOTP?  Will this
> become an occasion of change and character development?  Or will OOTP
> be more or less swept under the rug with a few vague references to
> "missing Sirius" and "wondering about Dumbledore" while the plot
> blazes forward toward whatever preordained end JKR has in mind?  In
> other words, will OOTP be a true turning point in the series, or will
> it just be "the bad year that was once upon a time," with no real or
> lasting change coming from it?
> 
> I would very much like for things to be the former.  But I'm just not
> sure.  I give each possibility (and I acknowledge there is a spectrum
> between them) about a 50% chance.

Neri:
I'm not afraid for a moment that OOTP will be swept under the rug. I
think JKR set up things in OotP so Harry will find himself with no
grownup he can really trust. He cannot even trust the memory of his
parents anymore. He cannot trust even his own mind, or his "saving
people" instinct, which until OotP had always led him to do the right
thing. It seems obvious to me that JKR set things for HBP. My guess is
that she will use all that happened in OotP in order to isolate Harry
in HBP, just at the time the war really escalates. I also think that
the mind link will be central to the plot at least in the first half
of HBP. JKR will use it to isolate Harry from the students in Hogwarts
too. They think he's a hero now, but they will always be afraid the
Voldy is going to take control over him at any moment. And he himself
might decide to disconnect himself from the Order and the war effort,
in order not to betray critical information to Voldy through the link.
In the climax of HBP, Harry will probably have to decide whether to
act upon insufficient knowledge and go saving one of his dear ones (my
bet: DD or Ron) despite what happened with Sirius.

Neri