Wash ,'Objects In Space'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I think that's the reason "lives" and "survives" are each used - Voldemort and Harry are both currently surviving, but not living. (This is actually a really good argument for Harry surviving the encounter, to turn on myself - it really is a Buffy moment in that sense.
This I absolutely agree with.
I still think it's the scar. Not Harry himself.
I don't want Neville to just be a Red Herring. He deserves better, dammit.
Oh, I fully believe Neville will have a moment of glory. I just don't think he'll strike the killing blow.
No. I don't, either. Yes, he parallels Harry, but he also parallels Peter, which, I think, will come into play.
Harry is James, Hermione is Remus, Ron is Sirius, Neville is Peter? I could see that. Especially the Hermione/Ron = Remus/Sirius combo.
Is Ginny Lily then? Only without the hating Harry/James ever? And I assume Draco is Snape?
This is disturbing.
Hermione/Ron = Remus/Sirius combo
Yeah. t pushes Slash glasses back up nose
And yeah to most of the rest of it, although I don't know that Draco deserves the comparison, but then, neither does Neville, only in the opposite direction.
So I know the number now. I was kind of asking for it when I started up a conversation with my cousin, who proceeded to tell me what she'd heard in algebra class.
Which is odd because she's not in school, so this really must be an old spoiler.
Well, as Jon said, it's not as firmly spoily as it may seem.
if HP is a comming of age story, then if harry dies - it would feel like a failure. because harry's real fight - has been for a good and possibly nomal life - whatever that may be.
he has been fighting V all his life.
Is his life only meant to fight V, or is there life after Voldemort
What beth said. If Harry dies, this has all been a variant on the Tragic Hero tale. If Harry lives, it means the rewards of fighting are more than just the nebulous Greater Good.
See, this just illustrates the difficulty in finding a decent variation on one of the 7 Basic Plots, particularly when you're dealing with a lot of mythic resonance.