Things Harry could have done

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 189306


Eric:
>
> I was kind of disappointed that a lot of stuff that came up in the  
> earlier books wasn't used again.
> 
> Like, for instance, the Veelas.

Pippin:
Although some have seen the "International Magical Cooperation" of GoF as an abandoned plotline, it is tied thematically to the Magical Brotherhood of OOP and the the Sorting Hat's pleas for House Unity in OOP and HBP, all idealistic or utopian visions of what the wizarding world might be. And it seems that  the reason those visions have not come to pass has as much to do with   the inflated assumptions of benevolent superiority held by the wizards themselves, Gryffindors not the least, as it does with the outright ill-will that those assumptions have generated.

JKR was all along setting up a situation where Harry must choose either to abandon the people he loved to torment and death or to face them himself, so  the possibility  of help from other countries or races of magical beings, or the seemingly hostile Slytherins had to seem remote. But I wonder, if Harry had known that Slughorn was on his way back with an army of reinforcements, would he still have gone into the forest?

In any case most of the vast audience of World Cup attendees did not react as drastically as Ron, Harry and the referee. There were at least two DE's in the top box, Lucius Malfoy and the invisible Barty Jr, and neither of them lost their wits.

Pippin