Casting a little light on Book 7 topics

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 163404

In message 163377 Jen wrote:
> 5) Lord Voldemort's demise will be "Voldemort in the Locked 
> Room with Love" (hehe, that's from the Clue game if anyone 
> plays)

Geoff:
Now that really worried me.

In Cluedo, when you make a statement such as "It was Professor 
Plum in the Library with the spanner", you are making a suggestion 
that the named person committed the murder. If your accusation 
above is right, then it looks like curtains for Harry.

I sincerely, oh so sincerely, hope, dear Jen, that you REALLY mean 
"it was Harry in the Locked Room with the Power of Love."

In message 163391 in a discussion of possible Book 7 events Jenni 
from Alabama wrote: 
> I've been disappointed ever since the end of HBP when Harry tells 
> us what he is going to do. Arrrgh! It ruined any hope for surprise
> in the next book. I like to be surprised and JKR has always delivered. 
> Now, I'm afraid that the surprises are over. I'm sure they'll be some 
> twists, but for the most part nothing really mind-blowing will happen.  
> I could be wrong - and I hope I am.

Geoff:
Come now, have you ever known anyone's plan to save the real world 
ever come out straight without any wriggles? So it is in the Wizarding 
World. Harry's agenda is bound to go pear shaped. Remember the 
prophecy of the great Scots Seer Robert of the Burns who said of such 
ideas: "The well-laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley" meaning 
that however well you lay the patio, the tree-roots will get you in the 
end.

In message 163399, bboyminn wrote on the subjects of trolls:
 
> I suspect that a 'mountain' troll is a very specific type of troll, and yes, 
> most likely they do live in the mountains. In folktales and mythology, 
> there is also the 'bridge' troll which hides under bridges and attacks
> little children. On some occasions, the 'bridge' troll will present the 
> approaching person with a riddle, and if you guess the riddle he will
> let you pass. Fail to guess, and he will eat you.

Geoff:
The troll mentioned above by Steve has a well-known niche in UK 
children's stories in `The Tale of the Three Billy Goats Gruff" and its 
corresponding song.

It may now be a long-extinct species and forgotten by biological 
scientists but there existed in the long ago days of Middle-Earth 
cave trolls who were drawn into the service of various of the baddies 
who roamed the lands in those days.

Geoff:
Trying to cast a few beams of light (heartedness) into the growing 
gloom surrounding Book 7. 
:-)