Mal ,'The Train Job'
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I would throw the book across the room if that happened.
I knew that was coming. Hee.
I told you I was a sap. I liked that moment in Superman II when the people thought Superman was dead and did the whole "They Killed Superman!" "Let's get 'em!"
Pure schmaltz...
Are there Wizarding universities?
There is an Auror Academy for training the Aurors, so I would think that there might be other higher educational facilities for specialty fields. But, if there were general higher education places, I would think that Percy (being Head Boy and all) would have gone there rather than directly to the Ministry.
The Final Battle, if there is one, would almost certainly have to be set there, I think.
It may be that Hogwarts itself doesn't survive Book 7. Rowling's own Gotterdammerung.
They all get pissed and do a collective spell that shows that together they are stronger than the evil that is the former Tom Riddle.
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"Cross the streams!"
It may be that Hogwarts itself doesn't survive Book 7. Rowling's own Gotterdammerung.
I dunno. Unlike Sunnydale High, Hogarts has been a good place for )most) of the students who attend. At least, it's not over a hellmouth. What meaning would there be in destroying it, particularly if the headmaster's office is the only place that anyone can "interact" with DD?
"Cross the streams!"
I must confess, that although I'm a sucker for collective ganging up on bullies, I can see such a scene being nail-on-chalkboard scratching if handled poorly.
The only possible symbolic benefit I could see would be the abolishement of the houses, so that All the Wizarding World (in the UK) Shall Be As One, but that seems a bit of over-kill, as there haven't been a lot of rot evident in the characterization of the school.
Unless Hogwarts is one of the horcruxes? Horcruces?
I think that JKR had Slughorn be a Slytherin as an example that all the Houses have something good in them, even the one with the history of the trickiest/most evil wizards being sorted into it.
The only problem with that is that it doesn't fit with the categories DD gave us, and I don't see JKR throwing those out (given that they were given in the first place) without a good reason.