Uncle Tom?

[fireflyseason2]

No: HPFGUIDX 166994

bboyminn:

> Now, it is possible that Harry and Riddle are related,
> but how does that change any thing? How does that change
> or advance the plot, or alter Harry's approach to the
> problem?
>
> Many things 'could be', but to what end?
>
> If you believe they are related (Harry and Tom R.) then
> what is the plot purpose of this?
>
> FireFly speculated that it might explain how or why
> Tom Riddle's curse backfired, but does it? Why would
> a person not be able to curse their relatives?
>
> It is a fair speculation since the similarities between
> Harry and Tom have been mentioned, but, once again,
> what plot purpose does it serve? Is Voldemort going to
> go, 'Oh so your my nephew, well then, never mind'? I
> don't think so. Is Harry going to go, 'Oh so your my
> Uncle, well then never mind, take over the world'? I
> don't think so.

firefly:

Honestly? You don't see what impact discovering a blood connection
between Harry and Voldemort could have on plot? Well, if I follow my
own, granted, rather dilapitated and by now derailed, (see quote by
JKR herself on the matter)train of thought, the plot point was to
come round to and illustrate JKR's running theme of the power of
personal choice over "fate". Harry has much of the same physical
qualities of LV, LV accidentally even gave him much of the same
majical abilities and Harry had become renowned, seen in the public
eye as heroic, the anti-Voldemort. His "equal", as the prophecy
foresaw but the difference, with a blood relationship established,
the ONLY difference, would be the Power of Love and of Pesonal
Choice.

That being the case, I think the plot would actually have
turned on a showdown where Harry would CHOOSE not to be a murderer,
disproving even the prophecy's power over the human spirit. And maybe
then Neville would run up and destroy the last Horcrux which, with
his newly returned memory, he would realise was actually the vulture
at the top of his grandmothers old hat! Yeah! And then Voldemort
would learn his lesson, see that ANYONE can change,even if evil seems
to be in their blood, repent and will end up being the best darn
Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher than Hogwarts has ever seen!

Thanks for your two-cents, there's your change.

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