Harry's Knowlege of Lord Voldemort - SS- post 1

[anne_t_squires]

No: HPFGUIDX 161079

 Eddie wrote:

Beatrice, you've done an amazing amount of valuable work.  Not to
rain
on your parade, but I don't think JKRowling was limiting herself to
knowledge that Harry had amassed _ABOUT VOLDEMORT_.  He has other
knowledge too that may come in handy.  

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Beatrice wrote:
Eddie,
A fair point!  Much of this knowlege will come in handy in the tasks
to come.  But I think that Harry's knowlege of LV will be key in his
quest, after all one of the most important parts of this quest will be
figuring out where to look (see HBP).  The angle I am trying to
explore is what has Harry learned about LV that might take him and us
to the various locations of the horcruxes.  

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Beatrice continued:

For example, Dumbledore deduces that LV uses the cave where as a child
Tom Riddle tortured two muggle children.  An event that Dumbledore
sees as pivital, because it made Voldemort feel special and powerful.
What else has given Volde that warm, fuzzy feeling of power and
exceptionality?  Is there any association with geographic location?
Or can we tie these events in to possible geographic location? 
 

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Anne Squires responds:

I find it fasinating to speculate about where Harry (and the reader)
will go in search of the remaining horcruxes.  

I am not certain where Voldemort has had special feelings of power,
nor do I know where he has experienced "that warm, fuzzy feeling of
power and exceptionality."  However, I think that Hogwarts itself is
probably one of those places.  We know that Tom Riddle wanted a
position on staff and when it was denied to him he went so far as to
curse the DADA job.  He, like Harry, spent many of his Christmas and
Easter vacations at Hogwarts.  He, like Harry, would have preferred
staying at Hogwarts rather than returning to the mundane each summer.
Hogwarts, I think, represents both magical and political power to LV.
Thus, I think a horcrux will be found at Hogwarts itself.  I have
always thought that when Tom Riddle came looking for a job from
Dumbledore he may have used the interview as an excuse to enter the
castle and hide one of his horcruxes (in the RoR perhaps? or the
CoS?).  I think he really did want the job, but realistically he must
have known there wasn't much of a chance of him getting hired on.  He
would have had a legitimate reason for being at the castle though. 
Who's to say he didn't stray to other parts of the castle?  If he had
been caught wandering around he could have easily justified himself by
saying he was looking around out of nostalgia. (That answer would have
even been partly true.)

I also think that a  horcrux will likely be found at
Grimmauld Place and another at St. Mungos.  I think the locket either
was or is at GP.  I think something (Hufflepuff cup?) will be found at
St. Mungos.  I base this idea on JKR's interview with Emerson Spartz
of MuggleNet and Melissa Anelli of The Leaky Cauldron on July 16, 2005.

When Emerson Spartz asked if she ever wished she could go back and
rewrite certain parts of the series JKR replied:

JKR: "There are bits of all six books that I would go back and tighten
up. My feeling is that Phoenix is overlong, but I challenge anyone to
find the obvious place to cut. There are places that I would prune now
looking back, but they wouldn't add up to a hugely reduced book,
because my feeling is you need what's in there. You need what's in
there if I'm going to play fair for the reader in the resolution in
Book 7. One of the reasons Phoenix is so long is that I had to move
Harry around a lot, physically. There were places he had to go he had
never been before, and that took time - to get him there, to get him
away. That was the longest non-Hogwarts stretch in any of the books,
and that's really what bumps up the length. I'm trying to think of
specifics, it's hard."

Anne Squires again:
Well, this got me thinking about where exactly does Harry go in OotP
(besides places he had been before)?  JKR says it is important that
Harry physically go to these places, that it ties into the resolution
of book seven.  So, these places must be of tantamount importance. 
This is the list I came up with(and it's rather short imho):

1. Ministry of Magic, including the Department of Mysteries.

2. 12 Grimmauld Place

3. St. Mungos


Thus, I have concluded that the horcruxes are either in 12 GP & St.
Mungos, or Harry will end up searching for them there at the very
least.  Whether they are actually there or not, I couldn't say. I just
very strongly suspect.  I think JKR did not want Harry to arrive at
these places in book 7 out of the blue, so to speak.  I also think
that whatever Harry has to do at these places, JKR did not want him
having to form first impressions. He is already somewhat familiar with
these places and whatever adventures await him in these locations he
will not be distracted by having to learn the lay of the land.  As far
as the MoM and the DoM are concerned, it is my belief that the climax
of the story will take place there.  I feel that  Harry's final
confrontation with LV will take place in the MoM, possibly in the DoM
itself.

Of course I could be completely wrong.  It wouldn't be the first time.
 I also like the idea of the final confrontation taking place at
Godric's Hollow.  That seems very symmetrical to me.  The saga would
come full circle, beginning and ending in the same place.  But, I am
positive that both the MoM and the DoM will play a huge part of book 7
no matter where the final confrontation ends up being physically located.