CHAPDISC: DH25, Shell Cottage

[kamion53]

No: HPFGUIDX 184032

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:
>
> The timing is conditioned by seasonal and symbolic considerations,
> IMO. The Snatchers episode had to take place around Easter so that
> Draco would be at Malfoy Manor. That meant Easter had to be moved up
> (or the camping interval would have lasted even longer) but the battle
> of Hogwarts couldn't take place before May, if JKR didn't want Harry
> to take his walk through the forest knee-deep in mud.<g>
>
> I think it's also important  that Harry's sacrifice takes place well
> after Easter, not during it. Symbolically, he's a follower of Jesus,
> not Jesus himself.
>
> Pippin


Kamion writing:
Honestly I think JKR let the timing rule by two quite different reasons
and well two that come directly from the store:

Nl the role and function of Draco:
Draco needed to be in Harry's presence at a certain moment to be
overpowered a lose his Mastership of the Elder Wand (which he did not
knew he had). Without winning Draco's wand Harry would not have won the
Mastership of the Elder Wand. So Draco needed to be present at Malfoy
Manor when Harry was brought in as a captive, what he did with the
identification is of no importance.
Logic time for being present at home is the Easterbreak.

Would it not be more logic that Draco was at home during the whole year?
No; first, eduction had become mandatory, second Draco is the model type
student in Voldy's propaganda.
Third, and most important, he needed to be in a position for Narcissa
to become so worried about him, that she was prepared to break her
loyalty with Voldemort. Would Draco have been in the DE camp instead
of at beleaguered Hogwarts Narcissa never would have lied and Harry
really would have died.
In the end the quintessence of DH was the sacrifice that mothers make.
(Molly, Lily and Narcissa form a unity in this.)

Easter is at average the first or second weekend of April, I don't
think JKR looked it up at all, early April was enough, take a few weeks
for the goblin to heal as well for Hermione to recover and April is
gone and we arrive in May, which is mentioned.