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*** Harry's final battle with Voldemort probably couldn't have gone any other way. In the sixth book, we just saw the only wizard that was ever able to stand up to him equally get killed off, and that Harry just couldn't fill his shoes. Besides, as has been said elsewhere, Rowling had been setting up how Harry would win since the first book, and the ending becomes obvious in hindsight. |
*** Harry's final battle with Voldemort probably couldn't have gone any other way. In the sixth book, we just saw the only wizard that was ever able to stand up to him equally get killed off, and that Harry just couldn't fill his shoes. Besides, as has been said elsewhere, Rowling had been setting up how Harry would win since the first book, and the ending becomes obvious in hindsight. |
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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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***** To answer the obvious objection, remember that it isn't until the last book that Harry's mental connection with Voldemort is established as Harry being a horcrux, so if we're going to be changing the ending we can easily change that too without contradicting any earlier books. |
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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? |
*** 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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