Comments | ponderous77: Dead Boy Walking

ponderous77

Dead Boy Walking

Mar 11, 2007 15:51

Chapter 15, "The Forbidden Forest." In which Harry meets the future, and knows that it is bad.

One of the most mysterious chapters in early Potter, and even after five additional books I’m not sure I can make complete sense of the occurrences herein. Long ago, pre-Order, I used this chapter as the prime evidence in an argument that Harry was doomed ( Read more... )

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ohmarianne March 24 2007, 15:01:12 UTC

Are you suggesting Voldemort ISN'T going to die? That's what a lot of this sounds like to me--that Harry will die (TEMPORARILY you forgot to say) and Voldemort faces something worse than death. I never thought of that before, I always assumed Voldemort would die for sure.

ponderous77 March 24 2007, 18:23:31 UTC

There are some things worse than death, yes yes. But because Voldemort fears death ever so much, his just recompense is being stone cold dead, I think. I'm actually unclear how "some things worse than death" fits into the equation. Perhaps Voldemort realizes at the last possible minute that there are "things worse than death" and chooses death instead?