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This is the kinda stuff we used to discuss at WOFS, :P But anyway, I've been poking around Harry Potter fansites, and just need a place to write the stuff down in. Feel free to comment and theorize with me. However, beware of spoilers for all of the books! (although if you haven't read them by now, you're a whore!)
So I was reading an interview with J.K. Rowling over at the Harry Potter Lexicon and came across this:
I thought that I would give you something though, rather than get to the end of today and think that I have not given you a lot. There are two questions that I have never been asked but that I should have been asked, if you know what I mean. If you want to speculate on anything, you should speculate on these two things, which will point you in the right direction. The first question that I have never been asked—it has probably been asked in a chatroom but no one has ever asked me—is, “Why didn’t Voldemort die?” Not, “Why did Harry live?” but, “Why didn’t Voldemort die?” The killing curse rebounded, so he should have died. Why didn’t he? At the end of Goblet of Fire he says that one or more of the steps that he took enabled him to survive. You should be wondering what he did to make sure that he did not die—I will put it that way. I don’t think that it is guessable. It may be—someone could guess it—but you should be asking yourself that question, particularly now that you know about the prophesy. I’d better stop there or I will really incriminate myself. The other question that I am surprised no one has asked me since Phoenix came out—I thought that people would—is why Dumbledore did not kill or try to kill Voldemort in the scene in the ministry. I know that I am giving a lot away to people who have not read the book. Although Dumbledore gives a kind of reason to Voldemort, it is not the real reason. When I mentioned that question to my husband—I told Neil that I was going to mention it to you—he said that it was because Dumbledore knows that there are two more books to come. As you can see, we are on the same literary wavelength. [Laughter]. That is not the answer; Dumbledore knows something slightly more profound than that. If you want to wonder about anything, I would advise you to concentrate on those two questions. That might take you a little bit further.
So...I don't know. I'm sure plenty of other people have thought this up already, but maybe in order for either Voldemort or Harry to die, the other has to die, too? I don't know. They were linked by the prophecy, and they're linked by their wands now, too. And then, at the end of Goblet of Fire, Voldemort used Harry's blood (which caused Dumbledore to get a gleam of triumph in his eye....). Grr, I don't know, but if Rowling sends us all in that direction, it seems a good place to spend time thinking. It would kind of make sense that that's why Dumbledore wouldn't try to kill Voldemort in OotP. But you'd think Dumbledore, being a practical guy, would be willing to sacrifice Harry for all the suffering Voldemort's going to cause. It would make sense with him dying, though. Rowling's said somewhere that she wouldn't want to be Harry because she knows "what he's going to have to go through."
Other random things....I'm sure it's important that Cornelius Fudge was the first wizard on the scene after Peter Pettigrew blew up that street and disappeared into the sewer. Maybe he's a Death Eater, :O
Also, I remember being incredibly pissed at the end of OotP because Harry didn't try using his mirror to talk to Sirius. What a dumbass! But I still like him, 'cause he got his angst on. Everyone always likes all the side characters, but I usually like the tortured, central figures - Harry, Frodo, Cloud (ff7, :P). Except for Ginny. Because in OotP, she kicked ass. I've liked her since CoS.
And also, something that's questioned a lot on the Lexicon is the missing 24 hours after Harry's parents died....Hagrid goes to pick him up, but he doesn't arrive at Privet Drive until midnight the following evening. Where did they go??
Anyway, I should get to bed....ugh....I can't wait for finals to be over with!
So I was reading an interview with J.K. Rowling over at the Harry Potter Lexicon and came across this:
I thought that I would give you something though, rather than get to the end of today and think that I have not given you a lot. There are two questions that I have never been asked but that I should have been asked, if you know what I mean. If you want to speculate on anything, you should speculate on these two things, which will point you in the right direction. The first question that I have never been asked—it has probably been asked in a chatroom but no one has ever asked me—is, “Why didn’t Voldemort die?” Not, “Why did Harry live?” but, “Why didn’t Voldemort die?” The killing curse rebounded, so he should have died. Why didn’t he? At the end of Goblet of Fire he says that one or more of the steps that he took enabled him to survive. You should be wondering what he did to make sure that he did not die—I will put it that way. I don’t think that it is guessable. It may be—someone could guess it—but you should be asking yourself that question, particularly now that you know about the prophesy. I’d better stop there or I will really incriminate myself. The other question that I am surprised no one has asked me since Phoenix came out—I thought that people would—is why Dumbledore did not kill or try to kill Voldemort in the scene in the ministry. I know that I am giving a lot away to people who have not read the book. Although Dumbledore gives a kind of reason to Voldemort, it is not the real reason. When I mentioned that question to my husband—I told Neil that I was going to mention it to you—he said that it was because Dumbledore knows that there are two more books to come. As you can see, we are on the same literary wavelength. [Laughter]. That is not the answer; Dumbledore knows something slightly more profound than that. If you want to wonder about anything, I would advise you to concentrate on those two questions. That might take you a little bit further.
So...I don't know. I'm sure plenty of other people have thought this up already, but maybe in order for either Voldemort or Harry to die, the other has to die, too? I don't know. They were linked by the prophecy, and they're linked by their wands now, too. And then, at the end of Goblet of Fire, Voldemort used Harry's blood (which caused Dumbledore to get a gleam of triumph in his eye....). Grr, I don't know, but if Rowling sends us all in that direction, it seems a good place to spend time thinking. It would kind of make sense that that's why Dumbledore wouldn't try to kill Voldemort in OotP. But you'd think Dumbledore, being a practical guy, would be willing to sacrifice Harry for all the suffering Voldemort's going to cause. It would make sense with him dying, though. Rowling's said somewhere that she wouldn't want to be Harry because she knows "what he's going to have to go through."
Other random things....I'm sure it's important that Cornelius Fudge was the first wizard on the scene after Peter Pettigrew blew up that street and disappeared into the sewer. Maybe he's a Death Eater, :O
Also, I remember being incredibly pissed at the end of OotP because Harry didn't try using his mirror to talk to Sirius. What a dumbass! But I still like him, 'cause he got his angst on. Everyone always likes all the side characters, but I usually like the tortured, central figures - Harry, Frodo, Cloud (ff7, :P). Except for Ginny. Because in OotP, she kicked ass. I've liked her since CoS.
And also, something that's questioned a lot on the Lexicon is the missing 24 hours after Harry's parents died....Hagrid goes to pick him up, but he doesn't arrive at Privet Drive until midnight the following evening. Where did they go??
Anyway, I should get to bed....ugh....I can't wait for finals to be over with!
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I don't wanna think about it. Sp if Harry needs to die or something like that, it's awful tot hink about it. Soon we'll see 'how Harry should get it: 10 easy ways!' sites srpouting all over the place.
But I agree on one thing: if I had a magic mirror, I'd USE it, dummy!
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