Giants and Voldemort (WAS: What's your favorite *now*?)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 183117

Mike:
> It's your second part (below the <snip>) where I'm not following. Why 
> did we have to be put through 'Hagrid's Tale' in OotP? Were we 
> supposed to see the parallel between the new Gurg and Voldemort's 
> second coming? Or was the giant's story a cautionary tale 
> forshadowing Voldemort's entire story and what would happen to him?
> 

Pippin:
I think it's supposed to give us the worst case scenario. The Hat
warns that Hogwarts, and by extension the WW, may crumple from within
-- we have to see what that means. The giants aren't threatened
directly by either Hagrid's embassy or the DE's, but their coming sets
the giants at war with each other.
 
Without  Hagrid's Tale, we would still have all the individual losses
in war, but we wouldn't see that regardless of who wins, war can
destroy a society.

Pippin