[HPforGrownups] CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 36, The Only One He Ever Feared

[Juli]

No: HPFGUIDX 122459


Great chapter summary!

--- a_rude_mechanical <a_rude_mechanical at yahoo.com>
wrote:

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> Suddenly, the water in the pool rises and surrounds
> LV, who 
> disappears.  Bellatrix and Harry assume LV to be
> dead.  DD yells for 
> Harry to be still.  Harry suddenly feels horrific
> pain in his scar
> too much to bear.  LV has possessed his body and
> begins to taunt DD, 
> saying "Kill me now!"
> 
> ---Why this particular taunt, I wonder?  It's not as
> though DD was 
> trying to kill him anyway, as we learned a few
> paragraphs ago.  It 
> was never DD's intent to murder LV, so why tease
> him?
> 
Juli:
DD tells Harry that what Voldemort really wanted was
to kill Harry, not him. He was hoping DD would try to
kill him while he was inside Harry, and I guess a body
without a sould isn't much.

> Harry begins to hope that DD will kill him/LV,
> because he is 
> suffering so much pain.  He thinks about death and
> realizes, "I'll 
> see Sirius again."  His heart "fills with emotion"
> at the thought of 
> seeing Sirius and all of a sudden LV leaves his
> body.  Harry opens 
> his eyes to see DD, and then the Atrium full of
> people.  Witches and 
> wizards emerge from the fireplaces, Cornelius Fudge
> among them, led 
> by the house elf and goblin statues.  
> 
> ---So THAT's where they went!
> ---So, the thought of Sirius expels LV from Harry's
> body?  Does this 
> fit in with what we know of possession from book 2?

Juli:
Maybe there are different kinds of possession. Ginny
was possessed by  a memory, HArry was possessed by a
living soul. HArry loves Sirius, the single thought of
his godfather filled his heart and soul with love, and
since LV has never known love, he can't handle it, I'm
guessing it burns, just like Quirrell got burned when
he touched HArry. Since recently I'm a firm believer
that LOVE is the power Harry has to vanquish LV.
> 
> ---Why is DD so anxious to get Harry back to
> Hogwarts?  Is there 
> healing there?  Protection?  

Juli:
As Hermione (and anyone else who's read Hogwarts, a
History) knows, Hogwarts is not only protected by
walls, it's protected by very ancient magic (or was it
Snape during occlumency lessons?). I guess that
there's enough power in Hogwarts to keep its
inhabitants safe. Not only DD being there is what
provides protection, DD left before Harry could get
kicked out.

> ---I think it's interesting that DD so calmly
> reinstates himself as 
> headmasterit's almost as though he was humoring
> Fudge all along, but 
> now that things have become serious, it's time to
> stop fooling 
> around.  Who has control over Hogwarts, anyway??

Juli: 
It seems like the MoM has control over some aspects of
Hogwarts, the governor others, and the headmaster
others. But since DD was proven right, there really
wasn't much reason why anyone could keep him out of
Hogwarts anyway. It shows how powerful DD really is,
he is far above Fudge, and he knows it.

Juli


		
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