Voldemort/Harry Showdown

[va32h]

No: HPFGUIDX 175414

In another thread entirely, Ceridwen said:

I was more noticing the whole world stopping just to listen to Harry 
playing Dumbledore to LV's Harry, and getting an earful of LOLLIPOPS 
for their patience.

va32h here:
This sent me off on another tangent. I agree that it seems odd for 
Harry to monologue at this moment, and to bring up such a variety of 
topics. 

And yet, I have to wonder how else a Harry/Voldy showdown would have 
occurred. I think it would have to be public; Harry's had too many 
bizarre and private confrontations resulting in deaths; Cedric, 
Dumbledore, Memory!Tom, Quirrel!Mort. It's no wonder people think he's 
a compulsive liar. OoTP was the only time he had credible witnesses.

I think a private faceoff just wouldn't be believable. The whole 
wizarding world needs to believe that Voldemort is really dead, because 
a bunch of people saw it. 

And yet, for Voldemort to die publicly, by Harry's hand, requires all 
the witnesses to back off. Is that believable? Would the readership 
accept and ending in which Voldemort is ganged up on by dozens of 
people, or are we conditioned to expect a one-on-one, and does the 
story require it?

I have to admit, I'm stunned that Harry glossed over the whole "you 
thought I was dead but I'm not" issue to talk about Snape, but I 
suppose that we needed to know that Voldemort knew Snape wasn't his? 
For Snape's sake? So that Snape's memory could be exonerated, as 
Sirius' had been?

Personally I would have liked Snape to be the one to reveal that 
tidbit, even if he did die for it. But that's another topic. 

While I dislike the cliche of the hero-villain duelling monologues, I 
am not sure an alternative would have worked. 

Your thoughts?

va32h