The Scholastic Question that was released today & Further Thoughts

[James Maertens]

No: HPFGUIDX 167736

Alferian:

Hi, I'm completely new here too

I don't think it would be a waste of time if Harry died in the end.
I think it would be shocking to his fans, but it would be quite in
keeping with the tragic hero.  I tend to feel that if Harry kills
Voldemort, or someone else does and Harry escapes, the ending will
fall a bit flat.  After all, we've been getting led on to believe
that there will be a big showdown between Harry and Voldy, so it
would be pretty hard to pull it off now without it seeming
predictable.  We shall see.

I do think that Severus might be killed.  I have not read around
in the vastness of this group and its archives but I assume it
has not escaped anyone's attention that (it appears) Snape was
in love with Lily Potter before she married Harry's Dad.  I won't
lay out the reasons for thinking so here, unless you ask, as I
suspect it's already been discussed.  In my reading, Snape killed
Dumbledore by pre-arranged plan to set Dumbledore free to work
against Voldemort on a higher plane.  It's an old trick in many
stories - fake your death and your enemies will stop looking for
you and watching you.  In the wizarding world a powerful wizard
doesn't need to "fake" it - or rather has to fake it very
convincingly.  The phoenix that Harry saw rising over Dumbldore's
tomb was a clue to his continued life.

So, I should be quite surprised if Dumbledore doesn't reappear,
much like Gandalf does in Lord of the Rings.  I think the big
question is whether Voldemort will die in the seventh book.  If
he dies or if he is redeemed, either way it seems like it would
not, at this point, be satisfying.  Perhaps he'll just get
eternally tangled up in all the loose ends Rowling has to tie up
in this final narrative.

I was certainly disappointed by Sirius's disappearance from the
story.  There was so much more that could have been done with
that character -- one of the few that undergoes much change in
the course of the story.  I do wish Harry would at least think
of going and talking to a portrait of Sirius.  Since all the
other portraits seem to be able to carry on conversations, you
would think that Sirius's would too.

Alferian