> (bets on Umbridge having come out of Hufflepuff? She's got the sheer stubborn stick-to-it-iveness)
hufflepuff? not slytherin?
> She knew she had to kill Harry but she didn't want him to die, so she copped out. With the MacGuffin Ex Machina.
i saw it as the old prophecy-cheating dodge most famous from buffy; just because he had to die didn't mean he had to stay dead.
however, your reading seems different from mine... the way i read it, it wasn't the hallows that kept harry alive - at that point, voldy still has the wand. it was the fact that voldy rebuilt his body with harry's blood, thereby taking on some of lily's sacrifice... thereby in a way making himself a horcrux for harry. in a way.
i just found the hallows to be this big red herring that went nowhere, aside from the wand. and the only bit of foreshadowing that i've been able to dig up is the way all other invisibility cloaks have been carefully kept offstage. although i'm disappointed that harry didn't think, "i've got the most powerful wand in the world and a stone that brings people back from the dead; here are fifty dead people, some of them my friends. hmmmm."
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hufflepuff? not slytherin?
> She knew she had to kill Harry but she didn't want him to die, so she copped out. With the MacGuffin Ex Machina.
i saw it as the old prophecy-cheating dodge most famous from buffy; just because he had to die didn't mean he had to stay dead.
however, your reading seems different from mine... the way i read it, it wasn't the hallows that kept harry alive - at that point, voldy still has the wand. it was the fact that voldy rebuilt his body with harry's blood, thereby taking on some of lily's sacrifice... thereby in a way making himself a horcrux for harry. in a way.
i just found the hallows to be this big red herring that went nowhere, aside from the wand. and the only bit of foreshadowing that i've been able to dig up is the way all other invisibility cloaks have been carefully kept offstage. although i'm disappointed that harry didn't think, "i've got the most powerful wand in the world and a stone that brings people back from the dead; here are fifty dead people, some of them my friends. hmmmm."