Why should Harry save the WW? (Was: McG / DD / ...)

[curlyhornedsnorkack]

No: HPFGUIDX 123279


reply to dumbledore11214, message 123160.

First, thanks for your help! For the life of me, I just couldn't make
out the start of this thread. I feel better now.

> Alla wrote :
> ...Yes, there is a definite possibility that 
> Harry will not be safe in "our world" till Voldemort is dead, but 
> theoretically he can at least try to escape, right? We don't even 
> know whether there are any Voldemort supporters in other countries 
> besides Englad and whenever Durmstrang is , so theoretically there 
> can be a safe haven for Harry in the muggle world, but all of this 
> of course just speculation.

Snorky:
I think fear of Voldemort has an international scope. During the
disturbance after the Quidditch Cup game in GOF, the French students
were hurrying away, not just the British. Also, IMO, Great Britain is
just a little too small for holding Voldemort's ego. (Sorry, I don't
mean to offend anyone!)


> Alla:
> 
> ...This is the angle that bugs me - not whether Harry 
> is heroic or not to save them, but why does he owe them (the WW)
anything.

Snorky:
I don't think Harry owes them anything at all. When he is alone in
DD's office after losing Sirius, he seems fed up with the whole lot.
Perhaps Harry will try to distance himself from his burden by dropping
out and abandoning his friends, hoping that Neville is "The One". Then
Neville will be killed by Voldemort in Book 6 and Harry will
reconsider how much he cares for his friends in the WW and in the
greater world.

Regarding why killing Voldemort falls on Harry, I can't help thinking
of the Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring movie, in which
Gandalf tells Frodo that you don't get to pick the times you live in.
In Harry's pre-WW life, nothing really indicates that a lot will be
expected of Harry or that he will be particularly gifted at anything.



> Alla:
> Probably the post you are talking about was Pip's  post about 
> developments in MD theory. I said many times that I wholeheartedly 
> agree with it. 

Snorky:
Thanks for remembering!


> Alla:
I believe that WW will die and be reborn just like 
> Phoenix. I have no clue how it will happen, but I do think that it 
> will happen, because indeed it IS a deeply flawed society, IMO.

Snorky:
If a few people from ordinary families are born with magical abilities
after the WW is stripped of magic, the internet could enable them to
get a new WW society going pretty quickly. (Unless they try to use
their magical abilities around their computers, of course!) I know,
how mundane!

I wonder if Rowling will ever provide the purpose of the WW with
regards to human evolution.  If I were her I might write a story in
which magical abilities are a genetic mutation that can be useful when
the world is periodically invaded by beings from...outer space... 
HeeHee.

-Snorky