[the_old_crowd] HBP - it's that man again, mostly

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On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 07:16:47PM +0100, Barry Arrowsmith wrote:
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<snipoh the snip>

> DD drinks a tub full of a Voldy potion. If it's straight poison then  
> it ain't very  fast acting. But think. Would Voldy want the thief to  
> drop  down dead on the spot? Or to suffer -  perhaps for a long, long  
> time. Would Voldy assume that there would be two thieves on that  
> tight little island? Probably not. (And why did the phrase "Stole it,  
> he did my precious" spring to mind?) Anyway the thief wants water.  
> Magical production of water is interdicted, and when anyone touches  
> the lake it's Curse of the Zombies time. My nasty imagination  
> suspects that DD (or Harry, if they'd succeeded in carrying him off)  
> would not become truly dead. To  borrow from LoTR again - think Ring- 
> Wraiths. Even though they escape DD knows that this time he's bitten  
> off more than he can chew. He *has* to die - and soon. And it is up  
> to Snape to administer the coup-de-grace, saving him from something  
> worse and only incidentally fulfill his oath to Cissy by giving Draco  
> a chance to review his options - a Regulus replay?

Food for thought. I just read the Time interview and JKR very carefully says
"Dumbledore is not Jesus" in response to suggestions of religious allegory.
Then again she is shockingly cagey about a major character death, so she still
gets to sit on the fence.

Interview in question (warts and all) here:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1083935-1,00.html

-- 
sed awk grep cat dd ..Im a luser baby ,so why don't you killall -kill me.