Vanquishing Voldemort is not destroying evil was Re: Harrycrux again (wa

[saraquel_omphale]

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Neri wrote:

>We are all sure that Voldy *will*
> be vanquished by the end of the series, but we must not be sure Harry
> will come out of it alive. 

Saraquel:
Hopelessley out of touch, I've been moving and life has been so busy 
that I haven't read the posts for ages.  On returning it seems that 
I've missed some really good threads.  I won't wade in as I'm not sure 
what has been said already, but I doubt that this has been discussed, 
so here goes.

Somewhere, I can't even remember which book it's in, DD says to Harry, 
that the fight to destroy evil is only ever temporary, that we hold it 
at bay, but it always returns. (If someone could provide canon that 
would be very helpful.)  I find it interesting that the word 
vanquished is used and not destroyed.

I haven't thought this through, but how about Nagini surviving at the 
end - the symbolism of the Snake slithering off into the Garden of 
Eden, would have a nice ring don't you think.  DD thinks that 
Voldemort has made Nagini into a horcrux, but has also warned us that 
it is dangerous to make a horcrux that can think for itself. So one 
could imagine that untimately Nagini is dominating that soul piece; 
the rest of Voldemort's soul pieces and his body is destroyed by Harry 
et al, but a piece of him is now trapped in Nagini.  I use the word 
trapped, because that soul part is not free to express itself, a sort 
of internal slave.

This is an ending which I haven't seen explored.  Where Harry 
survives, vanquishes Voldemort as we know him, but knows that evil is 
still out there.

I'm not sure at all that this would be a satisfying ending.  But that 
phrase of DD's persists in my head, and it seems very JKRish to not 
want to tie it all up in a happy ever after way.  I do think, that in 
some way she will show evil surviving at the end of the book and the 
use of the word vanquish as opposed to destroy or kill, is very 
telling IMO.

Saraquel