Where will the "great battle" be (was: Some thoughts and questions)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 161910

Cassy wrote:
> 
> I think placing the great last battle (and we bound to
> have it, otherwise the ending woulds be anticlimatic)
> to Godric's Hollow will be a nice touch, making a
> complete circle with everything ending where it
> started. And perhaps in epilog we will see some sort
> of memorial of two dearths of Voldemort being built
> there. 

Carol responds:
While I agree that a final battle at Godric's Hollow would bring the
book full circle, I don't think it will happen that way simply because
the only way I can think of for Harry to kill a de-Horcruxed Voldemort
without AKing him is to send him through the Veil. JKR has said that
Sirius Black's death served a purpose in the plot other than robbing
Harry of yet another father figure (or "brother" figure and link with
his father). Quite possibly it foreshadowed Voldemort's similar fate
(just as, possibly, Cedric's "take my body back" foreshadowed a
similar request by Sirius Black).

Carol, who thinks that one reason OoP is important in JKR's view is
the motifs and locations it introduced