A new Voldemort/Harry Theory based on a challenge post. on HPFF

[Ken Hutchinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 159197

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "aceworker" <aceworker at ...> wrote:
>
> DA Jones here: 
> 
> The following was a plot outline/challenge posted by one of the young
> writers on Harry Potter Fan Fiction, where I'm one of the prefects.
> 
> Reading through it I was struck by how right in felt. I have a feeling
> that this young kid might have hit on the plot for book 7. What do you
> think? 
> 

Ken:

I think it is a brilliant theory, exactly where many authors would go with
this story. He only leaves out the part at the end where Ron and Hermione
have to kill Harry and "watch horrfied as his body slowly fades and dissolves
until for a last few awful moments the only thing left visible was his scar."

I don't think that JKR is going there. Also, at one time Dumbledore tells 
Harry about the incomparable power of his whole and untarnished soul.
That would seem to preclude a conclusion where Harry has never had 
a soul, only one of Riddle's soul fragments. 

As Geoff said that is a very chilling way to conclude the series. In some ways
I love it and I think it would work for many adult readers. I don't see it as a 
good way to conlude a story written for children and adolescents. I think the
story is already too dark for them and this would take it straight into the 
darkest depths of Hell. Actually the more I think about it the more it feels
like the way "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell" plays out, at least in tone.

It's plausible, it's artistic, I wouldn't bet on it.

Ken