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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 3115631" data-attributes="member: 177">Well... [sblock]...of course it looks like the bad side wins - that's simple dramatic structure.  It is always darkest just before the dawn, and all that.  You have the most dramatic possibilities if the good guys are against the ropes, struggling hard, just before the end.  If the good guys were in a decent position goign into the last book, it doesn't seem all that spectacular if they do win.Plus, given some facts, we know that Hogwarts is not where Harry has to be if he's going to win.  Assume, for the moment, that leaving Voldemort alive is not an option - it only delays the inevitable.  So, Voldemort must be slain.  That means there's a stack of horcruxes (horcruxen?) that need to be found and destroyed.  Unless Voldemort is extremely stupid, they won't all be found at Hogwarts.  Hence, Harry has to be elsewhere to destroy them.Now, Voldemort may well still have some pyhrric victory, because of the outside chance that Harry himself is a horcrux...[/sblock]And btw, it is far easier to carry on conversation if you label the thread as containing spoilers, and do away with all the spoiler blocks.  Note how much of the conversation now needs to be blocked off - it is nigh impossible to talk about the books in this manner without revealing things from the books - so spoilers are inevitable.</blockquote>