Best of Enemies. pt. 4.

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Smythe, Boyd T {FLNA}" <boyd.t.smythe at f...> 
wrote:
> Kneasy, another wonderfully soul-staining take on the "villains" in the
> Potterverse.
> 
> Is anybody else out there actually rooting for Lord Thingy to finally look
> the part in HBP? Kill a few key adults (DD, please!) and a couple of
> students, maybe even a treacherous DE for fun? And all in a *very* foul way.
> And, most importantly, that nothing good happens to offset those
> deaths--yet.
> 
> Otherwise, we're not talking about good triumphing over evil.
> 
> Of course, the other option is that LV represents something larger, such as
> the recurring baddie or the world of magic, as proposed by others. Running
> out of time on those predictions, though....
> 
> --Boyd


Ta muchly. Glad you're getting something out of them.

I must say it's a pleasure to be able to put together a series of posts without
having too spend too much time fire-fighting responses. Though they'll 
probably be valid and are usually interesting they are a bit distracting when
one's in the process of composing  a lengthy piece on somebody/something
else. One of the joys of a site with a smaller membership most of whom have
already posted long and hard on almost everything.

Mmm. Voldy rampant. Eviscerations and fried eyeballs; rictus-ridden cadavers
strewn tastefully over a smoking, blasted landscape - and over all a louring
sky.  Nice thought - and it's well past time that he matches his reputation.

Voldy as recurring evil - well, we both subscribe to Possession Theory in one
form or another, which does allow (or even predicate) the evil in HP as a force,
an entity in and of itself. Many writers would be unable to resist the temptation
of a metaphorical theme such as that. Indeed, why should they? 
Does it stretch back to Salazar or even further? And if so, who or what is DD?

Pointers in July perhaps, but definite answers wait until book 7 is my bet.

Kneasy