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

[lucianam73]

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Butting in this very exciting discussion (I'm lurking and reading it 
with great interest), I'd like to ask you guys if any of you 
considers the possibility of the Horcrux subplot being partially 
false? Or at any rate surprisingly unimportant to the actual plot of 
book 7?

I wonder if JKR is really going to lay it thick on the (boring!) 
Horcruxes, because she's 
never given away the plot of her books before. She did say (sorry I 
can't remember the actual words) that 'now we have a clear idea of 
what Harry has to do'. But I can't help thinking if what she 
literally meant 
by that is 'now we know Harry is going to his parents' graves, and 
he's not coming back to school, then he's going after the four 
remaining Horcruxes that are such and such, then he's going after 
Voldemort and Snape', well that would apparently be the plot of her 
next book right there. Apparently.

I CAN'T help thinking part of it, at least, must be a bluff. And 
since the Horcruxes seem less important in the story's structure 
than going after Snape, Voldemort, not to mention we finally seeing 
Godric's Hollow, there must be a twist about them. Well, at 
least all the books so far have been surprises as their plot is 
concerned. If JKR really gave so much away about what's going to 
happen, why shouldn't she give away the book's title too ... :P

lucianam