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**** Approximately three hojillion fanfic authors have found other ways to write the final battle. Admittedly, many of them would not ''work'' (Sturgeon's Law), but that still leaves more than a few that would have. Just off the top of my head at random, Harry could have used his mental connection with Voldemort to fight the dude in a Battle In The Center of the Mind, where Voldemort's greater experience with magic would have been countered by Harry having far stronger willpower and conviction. (Voldemort is, ultimately, a coward. Harry, on the other hand, is almost suicidally determined.) |
**** Approximately three hojillion fanfic authors have found other ways to write the final battle. Admittedly, many of them would not ''work'' (Sturgeon's Law), but that still leaves more than a few that would have. Just off the top of my head at random, Harry could have used his mental connection with Voldemort to fight the dude in a Battle In The Center of the Mind, where Voldemort's greater experience with magic would have been countered by Harry having far stronger willpower and conviction. (Voldemort is, ultimately, a coward. Harry, on the other hand, is almost suicidally determined.) |
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** Voldemort has this is well, besides his desire for immortality, we never really see any depth to him, just being something of a [[Card-Carrying Villain]]. He is the most feared wizard ever, and people fear to say his name, but outside leading a group of supremacists, we really don't see why this is so. |
** Voldemort has this is well, besides his desire for immortality, we never really see any depth to him, just being something of a [[Card-Carrying Villain]]. He is the most feared wizard ever, and people fear to say his name, but outside leading a group of supremacists, we really don't see why this is so. |
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*** Particularly given that his immediate predecessor as a Dark Lord, Gellert Grindelwald, is off-handedly mentioned as having been the secret Nazi mastermind of a secret occult World War II, happening behind the scenes of the real one! How do you get more fearsome than that just by being a local terrorist? |
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** Let's not start with the Epilogue. Instead, Draco. There were plenty of chances he could've done a [[Heel Face Turn]] and aided Harry and co, maybe even having a [[Redemption Equals Death]]. Instead he slinks away from battle. Of course, let's not forget how epic it would've been if all of Slytherin (or at least the majority) decided to stand with Harry and the school at that moment. |
** Let's not start with the Epilogue. Instead, Draco. There were plenty of chances he could've done a [[Heel Face Turn]] and aided Harry and co, maybe even having a [[Redemption Equals Death]]. Instead he slinks away from battle. Of course, let's not forget how epic it would've been if all of Slytherin (or at least the majority) decided to stand with Harry and the school at that moment. |
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* ''The Snow'' by Adam Roberts has multiple examples of this- it starts off as a disaster story, then it's a psychological drama about isolation, then it turns into political satire, before rounding off all the loose ends with the [[Deus Ex Machina]] of saying that {{spoiler|space aliens did it.}} |
* ''The Snow'' by Adam Roberts has multiple examples of this- it starts off as a disaster story, then it's a psychological drama about isolation, then it turns into political satire, before rounding off all the loose ends with the [[Deus Ex Machina]] of saying that {{spoiler|space aliens did it.}} |
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