How It All Ends and Other Blather

[Lyn J. Mangiameli]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Barry Arrowsmith" <arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
>
> Voldemort  will be defeated but evil won't be.
> Just as Voldy rose after the the downfall of  Grindelwald, so too he will
> be followed by a successor. 

<snip> 
> This sort of loops back to previous whitterings on Possession Theory,
> that evil can be described or considered as a damn-near immortal entity
> that will insinuate itself into the welcoming or susceptible mind. Tying it 
> back to old Sally would be nice and not entirely unexpected - there's
> quite a lot we haven't been told about what the Founders got up to. 
> 
> As to who'll be the next nasty - that's up for grabs and may not even be
> hinted at - unless it's Harry. Which would be entertaining. But if Jo is in
> the business of history repeating itself - Tom left school at roughly the
> time that Grindlewald got creamed - so someone now at Hogwarts would
> be a good bet - young Malfoy perhaps? He's already well down the rocky 
> road to moral degeneracy, a couple of nights camped out in the Chamber
> and who knows what he'd be like. After all, Tom was not much more than
> just a vicious little shit before he dropped in to pay his respects, wasn't he? 
> 
> 
Ah, Kneasy, I again follow in your footsteps. Reading Talisman's most enjoyable essay, I 
had much the same reaction: Possession Theory is the cosmology which underpines all 
events, and Talisman just reported some of the specific workings. 

Of course, as you know, I think the evil force preceeds Sally. The striking think, to me, is 
that Sally didn't appear to start out bad. He was the special friend of Griffyndor and started 
out (and to a great extent remains) a respected school founder. Sally changed, he almost 
surely made a Faustian bargain, perhaps in his desire to protect and strengthen the hand 
of his magical bretheren. 

Tom may have started out largely bad, but I suspect he too was offered a Faustian deal. He 
took it, to strengthen himself, but perhaps the superficial explanation was again to 
strengthen those of magical blood. 

Harry has already been offered one such deal, by LV in exchange for the Stone. Perhaps he 
will be offered another, this time to strengthen the failing fortunes of his magical friends. 
And yes, I think Talisman is right that at least one major repository of the evil force is 
Harry himself.

So yes, there can be no final end to the evil, and it has to reside somewhere if not in Tom 
(and Harry). How fitting that Harry should have to go forward in life battling and bottling a 
piece of the evil within himself, so that it can't move on to another. It will require a lifetime 
of strength, until the piece can be transferred to another who becomes ready to assume 
the same burden.

Just some thoughts