Quick Questionnaire

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 168590

Ken:
> Probably due to the suggestions of others the most likely situation
> seems to me to be that both Harry and LV will find themselves 
> facing each other in some realm that is in the interface between 
> life and death. Perhaps that realm is even the Deathly Hallows 
> itself(themselves?). They will both realize that one of them will 
> have to go forward (to death) and one will have to go back (to 
> life). It is a realm where the dead like Sirius and Dumbledore can 
> help Harry. It is a realm where the power of the love both the dead 
> and the living have for him can help Harry. It is a realm where LV
>  will be at a fatal disadvantage.

Jen:  Even though I favor the idea of an ending in the locked room 
with Harry having an advantage because Voldemort would be surrounded 
by the power he 'detests' and doesn't understand, your idea reminded 
me of the graveyard, Ken, and the cave.  There's something very 
satisfying about Voldemort being surrounded by the very things he 
fears the most:  Death and dead bodies.  It would echo the graveyard 
with the ghostly entities circling around LV, "his face now livid 
with fear as his victims prowled around him..." (GOF, chap. 34, p. 
667, Am. ed)   

Ken:
> I guess I hope that all the author's comments about the hero needing
> to go it alone in "this kind of story" are just more misdirection on
> her part. I hope she is going to *try* to find an original 
> conclusion, hard as that may be, rather than adopting a formulaic 
> one.

Jen:  I'm pretty sure Harry won't really go on alone, what with all 
the allies he's amassed around him and all the ways the magical world 
has made it possible for him to have contact with those who loved him 
and died trying to protect him.  There's a component of Harry 
becoming a man and taking on adult responsibilties with the Horcrux 
hunt, but I'm not sure that's the hero story so much as Harry coming 
of age along with all his cohorts (friends and enemies).  Unless you 
mean you hope it won't be Harry and Voldemort alone at the end?  That 
I'm not sure about.  I get the sense both will be surrounded by their 
allies in a grand finale.

Jen