Danger at the Wedding?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 150619

Karen F. wrote:
> Forgive me if this has come up already, but is anyone else out there 
> wondering if the Bill and Fleur wedding isn't going to be a scene of 
> destruction?  With Arthur working for the Ministry, Bill as a Curse
Breaker, the Weasleys as "blood traitors", and poor Molly's bad dreams
---not to mention the foreshadowing of  the whole family pointing at
"mortal peril" on her clock, a wedding with all those people together
in one place seems a great opportunity to knock off a few pesky
muggle-lovers and HP & Co.....Maybe even with the help of Percy who,
IMO, has been under the imperious curse for a long time....
> 
> On the subject of Percy, I guess even his clock hand is pointed at
"mortal peril"......

Carol responds:
I've wondered about this, too, but I think the problem can be avoided
if the Weasleys keep the wedding private and secret. It's not exactly
unusual for all of the Weasleys (minus Percy), along Harry, Hermione,
Fleur, Tonks, and Lupin to be gathered together at the Weasleys.
Adding Fleur's mother and little Gabrielle won't make that big a
difference as long as no one's spying on them. (If Lupin is ESE!,
we're in trouble. Winks at Pippin.)

I think there may be a row over whether to invite Percy, which may
lead to trouble later whether he's invited or not, but JKR has said in
an interview that Percy is not under the Imperius Curse.

A lot depends on when the wedding occurs (before or after Harry's
blood protection ends) and whether the blood protection extends beyond
4 Privet Drive. I don't think it does. ("As long as you can call home
the place where your mother's blood dwells, *there* he cannot harm
you.) In any case, I think that the first attack will occur at the
Dursleys' house at midnight as the date shifts from July 30 to July
31, Harry's seventeenth birthday--at which point I expect Petunia to
chuck him out, accompanied by Ron and Hermione. What will happen then
is anybody's guess, though I personally expect Mrs. Figg to behave
heroically and to "manage in desperate circumstances to do magic quite
late in life"
 http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/1999/0399-barnesandnoble.html

As for the clock's hands all pointing to "mortal peril," I'm quite
disappointed that they were already doing so in HBP. What good is
that? What happens if one of the Weasleys is actually attacked, like
Bill by Fenrir Greyback, and there's no difference between his clock
hand and, say, George's, yet George is (relatively) safe in Diagon
Alley and Bill is lying in a pool of his own blood? I used to envision
all the hands in their normal positions and Percy's moving to "mortal
peril" as Molly watched. The thought still sends chills up and down my
spine even though I don't think it will happen that way now. But Molly
loves her third son even if no one else in the family does, and I do
think that Percy will be among the characters who redeems himself
through his death, perhaps the only one who does so if Snape lives or
is already redeemed. (I do expect a Weasley to die, maybe more than
one, but to start off the book with a Weasley bloodbath would be too
much for younger readers. OTOH, I don't think Molly's fears for her
family as illustrated so graphically through her Boggart are groundless.) 

How about a double wedding, Fleur/Bill and Tonks/Lupin, as a happy
beginning to the book, foreshadowing another double wedding,
Harry/Ginny and Ron/Hermione, in the epilogue, with the deaths (and
there will be deaths, I'm sure) at intervals throughout the
intervening chapters. At any rate, I'm sure that Harry will need
Bill's expertise as a curse breaker at some point before he resorts to
accepting help from a certain Dark Arts and potions expert (with
surprising healing powers) who won't be invited to the wedding(s), so
Bill will survive his own wedding. (Wonder if Viktor Krum will be
there? That should be fun.)

Carol, wondering whether lightning will strike twice in the same
place, meaning that a Weasley who has already faced death (Ginny,
Arthur, Ron, Bill) might die or if we should expect the death(s) among
those who have not had near-misses (Molly, Percy, Charlie, Percy, the
Twins, Percy, and did I mention Percy?)