What's With All The Bloodlust?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 167042

firefly wrote: 

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> And if Voldemort wins I will fly to England or whereever she lives
> and picket outside her house till she does a re-write.

Carol responds:

It's extremely unlikely--in fact, I'd venture to say the probability
is zero--that Voldemort will win. Not only would that ending violate
the conventions of every genre she's working in (and enrage her
readers), but JKr has also taken pains since SS/PS to depict the WW as
a world within the mundane world of Muggles, hidden from our eyes. We
readers are supposed to willingly suspend our disbelief in magic, to
believe that Muggles "don't see nuffink, do they?" in part from our
denial of our own sense perceptions and in part because of
Muggle-repelling spells. But if Voldemort won, events such as the
murders and the collapsed bridge and the "hurricane" caused by giants
would become more common, impossible to hide from Muggle eyes. The
Obliviators would be working full time.

Now granted, Voldemort was powerful in VW1 and the Muggles didn't know
about him, but he had not yet won the war. He had not yet taken over
the Ministry and the WW and started a full-fledged campaign of
genocide, wiping out Muggles and killing or enslaving Muggleborns. JKR
is not going to let that happen, not only because the various genres
require that Harry save the WW but because her readers, who live in
the Muggle world that surrounds the WW, will not by any stretch of the
imagination, by any willing suspension of disbelief, be able to
swallow that ending. We're not talking about Middle Earth in a
legendary and forgotten past. We're talking about Britain in the
1990s. The victory of Voldemort did not and will not happen or even
the Muggles, including her readers, would know it. Unlike the
existence of Hogwarts, hidden from Muggle eyes by its disguise as a
ruin, such an event could not be disguised from Muggle eyes by any
spell, nor would there be any need for an Epilogue exlaining what
happened afterwards to the survivors.

Carol, who believes that the victory of Voldemort is the one ending
that JKR could not get away with (and probably never contemplated)