Lack of Confidence in JKR (WAS:Greatest Fear/greatest Hope)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 121705



> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mizstorge" 
<lszydlowski at h...> 
> wrote:
> All I have to add to this discourse, besides nodding in 
agreement to those who said there doesn't seem to be a 
unifying Slytherin  philosphy of evil, is my great surprise no one 
jumped on my comment  about hoping the ending wouldn't be 
LAME! After what I consider the  underwhelming revelations 
about the prophecy at the end of OOtP (Jo,  honey, we already 
knew all that. Or suspected it. Whatever.)<

Pippin:
But the first prophecy never was a major  mystery. It received a 
only a passing mention in Book Three, and while it obviously had 
a  role in Book Five, for most of the book we didn't know that's 
what all the fuss was about. And   Dumbledore gave us fair 
warning that the prophecy was basically worthless: 
"Nevertheless, you should never have believed for an instant that 
there was any necessity for you to go to the Department of 
Mysteries tonight." Its value to the Order was only in what 
Voldemort *believed* it contained: "the knowledge of how to 
destroy you." 

Fudge's arrival at the Ministry, led by the statues of the House Elf 
and a Goblin, would seem to foretell a shift in the balance of 
power. 


We have already seen that some Slytherins stood to honor Harry 
at the feast in GoF.  That, together with the Sorting Hats warning 
that only if the Houses are united can Hogwarts withstand her 
foes, has to count for something. Why is it there if nothing is 
going to come of it?


Pippin