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

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 182281


> > Magpie:
> > That's not the point. Of course any action that happened in the
> story is going to follow earlier events and so come back to Harry. 
But
> if you just remove what needs to happen from this story, so we're 
not
> trying to keep the story exactly the same without the central
> character, obviously there are other ways to get Basilisk venom 
than 
> via Harry Potter. <snip>
> 
> Carol again:
> I think you're missing my point, which is that the Sword of 
Gryffindor
> could not have been used to destroy Horcruxes had it not been 
steeped
> in Basilisk venom, nor could the Basilisk fang have been used to
> destroy the cup if Harry hadn't killed the Basilisk. 

Magpie:
I think you're missing my point, which is that I'm completely off-
book here. As long as basilisks exist in the WW--which they do--they 
offer a possibility for venom that a Wizard can use to destroy a 
Horcrux. As does the existance of other Horcrux defying things. It 
doesn't have to come down to this basilisk in this Chamber killed in 
this way because of the things done in this book. That's just the 
way it happened here, where everything follows everything else and 
comes back to Harry. But there's a big world out there of limitless 
possiblities. I don't think we can just say that all these things 
had to be done by Harry because Harry did them in canon. I'd like to 
give the WW a little more credit, even if canonically they do seem 
to be a classic Idiot World who almost wants to be ruled by an 
overlord.

Carol:
Exactly, Alla! No Chosen One--no one to find and destroy the 
Horcruxes or sacrifice himself (not knowing that he won't die) to 
save the WW. Just a long, dreary eternity of an indestructible 
Voldemort ruling the WW. 

Magpie:
Or else something else, because Voldemort wasn't indestructible. He 
was a powerful Wizard with six Horcruxes that weren't indestructible 
either.

-m