Other Schools / Glimmer / Foe Glass (Was Re: And in The EndGoF)

[Goddlefrood]

No: HPFGUIDX 168585

> Celia:

> 6. What are the odds on seeing students from Beauxbatons and 
> Durmstrang again? 

Goddlefrood:

Inordinately high I should say. Fleur Delacour is to be 
married to Bill and I contend that book 7 will open with 
this as the first thing Harry takes part in in the WW after 
the Dursley revelations ;-)

Krum will also be back, despite JKR saying that not every 
little thing will be explained, she has said:

"You will see Krum again, though not soon."

From: JK Rowling's World Book Day Chat, 4th March 2004.

That after GoF, and if I'm much mistaken he has not appeared 
since :-?. This too:

"JKR: - hints. ANVIL-sized, actually, hints, prior to this point. 
I certainly think even if subtle clues hadn't been picked up by 
the end of "Azkaban," that by the time we hit Krum in Goblet..."

A crumb of comfort for we poor theorists there ;-). Mugglenet /
Leaky Interview 16th July 2005.

As to whether any other students from either Beauxbatons or 
Durmstrang will appear I have to say I severely doubt it, if
for no better reason than this:

"There will be some characters who you don't know particularly 
well, and there may be a couple of new characters, but nobody 
really major. You know pretty much the cast list by now." 

(ITV, 2005)

Very suggestive of us not meeting any we have not met, and we
have not realy met any other students from the other two schools
named above by name, apart from Gabrielle (I use the French 
spelling for covenience), who will most probably be a bridesmaid 
or its equivalent for Fleur's wedding.

Not a student but Madame Maxime will be back with some more fancy
wandwork, possibly in defence of Rubeus again and I hope she
saves him and they can sail off together into whatever sunset
may be around at the time :-)

> Celia:

> What is the "gleam of something like triumph" in DD's eye?

Goddlefrood:

Here's a little snippet:

'Then you told me, two years later, that on the night that 
Voldemort returned to his body, he made a most illuminating
and alarming statement to his Death Eaters. "I, who have gone
further than anybody along the path that leads to immortality."
That was what you told me he said. "Further than anybody." And
I thought I knew what that meant, though the Death Eaters did
not. He was referring to his Horcruxes, Horcruxes in the plural, 
Harry, which I do not believe any other wizard has ever had. Yet
it fitted: Lord Voldemort had seemed to grow less human with the
passing years, and the transformation he had undergone seemed to 
me to be only explicable if his soul was mutilated beyond the
realms of what we might call usual evil ...'

- p. 469, HBP Bloomsbury Hardback Edition

My interpretation is that the gleam was quite simply because
Dumbledore had had his theory about Riddle having multiple
Horcruxes confirmed. That coupled with his knowledge of blood
magic and the implications of why having Harry's blood in LV's
veins will prove at the end to have been a tremendously poor 
idea on LV's part. LV really should have listened to Peter,
that man often knows what he's talking about ;-)

Not a huge theory, but there you have it.

> Celia:

> What does it mean that Snape appears in the Foe-Glass 
(my favorite moment in all of HP)? 

Goddlefrood:

Only that he was a foe of Barty Jnr at that point, I don't 
interpret this as in any way shape or form as making Severus
DDM. It is crashingly simple, IMO.

> Celia:

> How will "Priori Incantatem" affect the final confrontation 
> between LV and Harry?

Goddlefrood:

Perhaps I'll be proven wrong on this, but I suggest that there
wil be no wands involved in the final showdown. I'll get back 
to the love theory another time, it's a work in process.

The starting point for it I will tell you. It occurred to me
that Harry Potter is the featured character of the series and
when I came out from a reverie one day, there on my bookcase
were the following titles:

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

And soon there will be:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

>From this I could only conclude that the books concern Harry 
more than any other character ;-). Lord Voldemort will, of
course, get the leg room he's been craving for some time, JKR
has told us this.

Tahnks once again, Celai, for some interesting things to give
a small two penn'orth on :-)

Goddlefrood, who asks you on leaving to take a look at Helga
Hufflepuff's cup, or something very like it. Presenting the
Rillaton Cup:

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/641/therillatongoldcup17001ep3.jpg