The editor was sobbing

[grackel13]

No: HPFGUIDX 167002

Bart wrote:
*SNIP* My prediction (and it's not a longshot piece of silliness,
like the Deathly Hallows being cries from behind the Veil): the end
of the novel portends the end of the Wizarding World. --Bart *SNIP*

Grackel13:
Hello, this is my first post -- please forgive any infelicities (or
just edit 'em out, I suppose!). The end of the WW would indeed be
occasion for sobbing -- we have a really good example of exactly how
poignant and harrowing this can be in the Lloyd Alexander Prydain
chronicles, in which the overthrow of evil precipitates the leaching
of magic from the world. Very, very affecting.

But I don't believe it's going to happen to the whole world -- only
to Voldemort. I've always suspected that Dumbledore's spell, the one
with the hollow, gong-like note, was an attempt to strip Voldemort of
his magic, and I've always nursed the hope that is how Harry will
defeat Lord Thingy -- not by causing his death, but by stripping him
of power, which would be, for Voldy, worse than death...though he
doesn't realize it.

Perhaps this has already been thoroughly hashed out in earlier
discusions, and if so -- apologies. But perhaps not? Any thoughts
would be eagerly read....
Grackel13