My HP speculations
Jul. 21st, 2005 12:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeSince I'm three books behind now (just trying to stay ahead of the movies), I'm a bit left out of the fun, but I'd still like to record my thoughts. Please, those of you who actually know things, don't post confirmations or denials; I'm being reasonably careful to avoid spoilers.
Okay, so I do know that someone dies in book 5, and that it's someone I hadn't met in Books 1 or 2. But I don't know who that person is. (I would guess Sirius or maybe Lupin, based on that.) I also know that someone dies in Book 6. I'm going to speculate about that right now.
Knowing that the seven books are intended to comprise a coming of age story for Harry, which presumably also determines the fate either of the school or the whole world, I assert that it's structurally necessary to remove his parent figures from the story so that he ends up standing on his own as an adult. That is, by the end of the seventh book, Harry should be essentially without Dumbledore and Hagrid, and doing okay with that.
It goes without saying that Harry needs to vanquish his enemy (V.) and Ron needs to deal effectively with his (Draco), and that the Harry-Ron-Hermione triangle should be resolved (remember, I've only read three books, and for all I know it already is). The other main resolution needs to be the redemption of Snape in Harry's eyes, and Snape obviously needs to get past his feelings about James et al. so that he can act with maturity and wisdom as well as integrity.
Thus, I'm speculating that in Book 6 Harry loses Hagrid, who is more or less a mother figure (nurturing parent role), and in Book 7, he loses Dumbledore, his father figure (authoritative parent role). One straightforward way to do that would be to have Hagrid die and Dumbledore retire, to be replaced at the end of Book 7 by Snape as headmaster.
Why lose Hagrid first? It's a more emotional loss and would take longer to recover from. (Also, it's more consistent with the level of dismay I've been observing.) Before writing all of this out, I was thinking it was Dumbledore who dies in Book 6, since his departure seems more necessary to the "future of the school" scenario, but logically his departure could happen just as well in Book 7, and I'd forgotten about Hagrid.
I'm so curious about all those lj-cut spoilers I've been seeing that I really want to share in the fun next time around, so I think I'll get myself caught up by then regardless of the movie schedule!
Okay, so I do know that someone dies in book 5, and that it's someone I hadn't met in Books 1 or 2. But I don't know who that person is. (I would guess Sirius or maybe Lupin, based on that.) I also know that someone dies in Book 6. I'm going to speculate about that right now.
Knowing that the seven books are intended to comprise a coming of age story for Harry, which presumably also determines the fate either of the school or the whole world, I assert that it's structurally necessary to remove his parent figures from the story so that he ends up standing on his own as an adult. That is, by the end of the seventh book, Harry should be essentially without Dumbledore and Hagrid, and doing okay with that.
It goes without saying that Harry needs to vanquish his enemy (V.) and Ron needs to deal effectively with his (Draco), and that the Harry-Ron-Hermione triangle should be resolved (remember, I've only read three books, and for all I know it already is). The other main resolution needs to be the redemption of Snape in Harry's eyes, and Snape obviously needs to get past his feelings about James et al. so that he can act with maturity and wisdom as well as integrity.
Thus, I'm speculating that in Book 6 Harry loses Hagrid, who is more or less a mother figure (nurturing parent role), and in Book 7, he loses Dumbledore, his father figure (authoritative parent role). One straightforward way to do that would be to have Hagrid die and Dumbledore retire, to be replaced at the end of Book 7 by Snape as headmaster.
Why lose Hagrid first? It's a more emotional loss and would take longer to recover from. (Also, it's more consistent with the level of dismay I've been observing.) Before writing all of this out, I was thinking it was Dumbledore who dies in Book 6, since his departure seems more necessary to the "future of the school" scenario, but logically his departure could happen just as well in Book 7, and I'd forgotten about Hagrid.
I'm so curious about all those lj-cut spoilers I've been seeing that I really want to share in the fun next time around, so I think I'll get myself caught up by then regardless of the movie schedule!