Indestructible evil - Re: Bits and pieces

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 142546


> Saraquel wrote:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/142536
> <snip> 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. <snip>
> 
> Carol responds:
> I don't remember Dumbledore making that remark, but Snape says
> something similar in HBP, 


Valky:
I could be quite mistaken but the remark you are referring to could be
this in Book one, when DD is chatting with the recovering Harry in the
hospital wing. Harry asks Dumbledore if Voldemort will come back
saying 'I mean, he hasn't gone, has he?" and Dumbledore replies -

'No Harry, he has not. He is still out there somewhere, perhaps
looking for another body to share ... not being truly alive, he cannot
be killed.' ........ ' Nevertheless, Harry, while you may have only
delayed his return to power, it will merely take someone else who is
prepared to fight what seems a losing battle next time ~ and if he is
delayed again and again, why, he may never return to power.'

I recalled it to be less specific than this, but now I have reread, I
think that perhaps my recollection of the same said generally about
all evil, by Dumbledore, is probably movie contamination. I can't
check unfortunately as I don't own the PS film (for shame! ;D)


Carol:
> although he's speaking specifically about
> the Dark Arts rather than evil in general: "The Dark Arts are many,
> varied, ever-changing, and eternal. Fighting them is like fighting a
> many-headed monster, which, each time a neck is severed, sprouts a
> head even fiercer and cleverer than before. You are fighting that
> which is unfixed, mutating, indestructible" (177 Am. ed.). (The 
> Hydra, Valky?) 


Valky:
Absolutely Carol! I see foreshadowing here of the first Horcrux that
Harry will take on in Book seven, I am sure of it. :D

Valky
who thinks that the 'hydra' Horcrux will be in London, Luna will tip
Hermione off to the location during the wedding by mentioning some
conspiracy theory about the wandmaker Ollivander, and that Peter will
help Harry to defeat it (thereby paying his life debt).. all purely
speculative, but that's my guess in a nutshell.