Role of ESE in Hero's Quest (was:Re: Was HPB's ending BANG-y?...)

[dumbledore11214]

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> > >>Alla:
> > It IS one of the essential elements of heroic quest as far as I 
> > know - to know what are you looking for and who are your 
enemies   
> > and I agree with Nora, book 7 IS very likely to have many 
features 
> > of heroic quest. I mean, hero gets help along the way, 
but        
> > certainly he has to know whom to trust. Of course book 7 
is        
> > unlikely to play ONLY by the rules of quest, so we shall see.
> 
> Betsy Hp:
> This sounded wrong to me, so I did some fast and dirty web 
> research.  The heroic quest (or the Hero's Journey) doesn't need a 
> secretly evil, or "surprise" villain at all. <SNIP>

Alla:

Where did I say that heroic quest needs a secret evil, or "surprise" 
villain? I said exactly the opposite - that hero needs to know who 
your enemies are. So I am not quite sure what exactly sounded wrong 
to you in my reply.


Betsy Hp:
> And if there is a villain, generally the hero knows exactly who 
they 
> are from the get-go.
<SNIP>

Alla:

Correct, but since my argument is that book 7 is the ONLY book where 
at least in part we will see the quest, I say that this is exactly 
true - Harry knows "from the get go" of book 7 who the villains are 
and Snape can very well be amongst villains. Basically, in the book 
7 IMO Harry will not make mistakes as to who the villains are.

JMO,

Alla, who thinks that necessity to hunt down horcruxes and the fact 
that "mirror" will show up indicates quite strongly that some kind 
of Quest will play out in book 7.