[HPforGrownups] Re: Suspension of disbelief -Idiots of War

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 182404

Pippin:

> One of Voldemort's great weaknesses was his tendency to
> overconfidence. Did the Order play to that by letting him think he
was
> having free rein until Harry was ready to confront him? Harry,
with
> his built-in connection to Voldemort, is the last person the Order
> would have wanted to know.

Magpie:
That's a bit too creative to me--nobody needed to let Voldemort
steamroller over them in order to get him overconfident. (Nor does
anyone suggest they're doing that.) (Is this also why the Order
seemed to politely give Voldemort a lot of time to get strong before
they kicked into gear themselves?)

Lynda:

Now to me, what Pippin wrote above is exactly what I percieve from Rowling's
text. Unquestionably. Without any doubts. Whenever I read the book that's
what I percieve and since there were six books prior to DH that I really
liked that were leading me to that ending I'm fine with it. Does that mean
that had I written the story of Mr. Harry Potter: Wizard I would have ended
it in the same way? No. Not precisely anyway although good would have won
over evil and Lord Thingy would be vanished, but having read the story as it
progressed through seven volumes I was pretty well pleased with what Ms.
Rowling did with the story and the way she did it--realizing of course that
you also finished the story and it didn't hit the rubbish pile before you
were done or even afterwords.

Lynda


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