GoF CH 27-29 Post DH look/ Snape and Harry redux

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 182266

> Magpie:
> Right--I didn't mean that the Horcruxes went dead. They weren't dead 
> in DH, but they were still taken out. You just needed to have the 
> right weapon. What you're describing is exactly what we have in DH--
> Voldemort himself is alive in his body, and then he's got six 
> powerful Horcruxes lying around that have to be destroyed and are 
> destroyed by regular Wizards. 

Carol responds:
Ron and for that matter, DD, have access to a Sword of Gryffindor
steeped in Basilisk venom because of Harry. Ron and hermione can enter
the Chamber of Secrets and use a Basilisk fang to destroy the cup
Horcrux because of Harry. Dumbledore retrieves the fake Horcrux
because he's with Harry (he would have died in the attempt if he'd
been alone). Crabbe is in the RoR (and accidentally destroys the tiara
with Fiend-Fyre) because he's following Harry, the only person besides
Tom Riddle who has found out what happened to the diadem. HRH can only
enter the vault where the cup is because Harry has seized Bellatrix's
wand and because Griphook wants the Sword of Gryffindor, which belongs
to Harry, despite having been used by Ron to destroy the locket
Horcrux. And if Kreacher hadn't been willed to Harry and Harry hadn't
caught Mundungus trying to get away with "nicking Sirius's stuff,"
they wouldn't have found the real locket, either.

The "ordinary" wizards, Ron and Hermione, actually accomplish some
extradordinary feats, but they wouldn't be there if it weren't for
their friendship for and loyalty to Harry. And I'm not sure that I'd
call Hermione, "the brightest witch of her age," an "ordinary witch.
Ron, yeah. But I like him all the better for being so normal and
flawed. As for Neville, his courage, confronting Voldemort and killing
Nagini simply because Harry said "Kill the snake" is anything but
ordinary. Nevertheless, had he not been instructed by Harry to kill
Nagini, he would not have done it.

Imagine a Battle of Hogwarts without Harry as the Chosen One. For one
thing, Voldemort would have had a lot more DEs because he wouldn't
have killed some of them in his anger. Bellatrix would have had her
own wand and probably wouldn't have been defeated by Molly. Lucius
would have had his own wand because LV wouldn't have borrowed it to
kill Harry and it wouldn't have been destroyed. Snape would have been
just another DE and DD would have died from the ring Horcrux. Draco
would never have been assigned to kill him because he would already be
dead. He might have been an eager little junior DE like Crabbe but not
so stupid. LV wouldn't have been sidetracked from his takeover by the
Elder Wand because there would have been no Priori Incantatem to make
him think that he needed another wand, which would have remained
buried with Dumbledore. So he would be the master of his own wand and
there would be no self-sacrifice to destroy his powers.

So much for Hogwarts. So much for the WW.

Carol, glad that she doesn't live in any such "normal" world