Tue 20 Jun 2006
It occured to me that the fountain in the Ministry of Magic, the “Magical Friends” is not only a decorative element, but is also a symbol. Harry first encounters the fountain in the Order of the Phoenix when Arthur Weasley brings him to the Ministry of Magic for his disciplinary hearing. The fountain has statues of a wizard, a witch, a centaur, a goblin, and a house elf.
Through the series, Harry has managed to find a single ally among various magical creatures, among centaurs, only Firenze will assist Harry. Among house elves, Dobby allies himself with Harry, among giants, ony Grawp returns (and it could be argued he didn’t exctly come willingly).
It would seem impossible that by the end of book 7, whatever it is to be called, that Hermione and Ron would fail to be teh witch and wizard central to the story of how Harry defeats the Dark Lord. If I guess correctly that Firenze and Dobby also play a significant role, then I venture to predict that a new character to be introduced in the last volume will be a goblin. That of all goblins, only one will abandon the neutrality of the rest of goblinkind towards this war among wizards, by doing so will be shown to be regarded as a freak by the rest of his/her clever magical race, and will play a significant role in the downfall of Lord Voldemort.
September 7th, 2006 at 10:34 am
Dea from myspace replied there:
Hmm, i’ve finally read the article.. interesting point, though JK said that she wouldn’t be introducing new important characters so if a goblin comes into book number 7 i don’t think they would be so important.
But i see where you’re coming from…
(posted by the Horcrux Citizen)
October 7th, 2006 at 10:30 am
yeah… I think that the huge battle at Hogwarts (yeah count on there being one) the centaurs will come into the fight. They seem to be incredibly intelligent and reasonable (but, granted a little too proud.) They are fast, agile, incredibly strong, they side w/ dumbledore (or at least respect him) good with a bow, and know the forest. A single centaur fought off Voldy-Quirell in the forest.
As for the Fountain of Magical Brethren:
I believe that Harry Will be owning Death Eater’s and other evil creatures. But they will be losing…Voldy’s Army is just too powerful…But as Harry desperately thinks this is the end the centuars come into the battle. along with a mass of powerful creatures from the Forbidden Forest (maybe even fluffy, he IS in there you know–joes website) and then they start owning the Death Eaters faces and then Harry sees firenze they say “hi.” maybe Harry goes on his back like in Bk. 1. If he doesnt go on his back then
they fight together but the “big blond” Death Eater from the tower comes in looking for the #1 death eater award and tries to AK harry just as harry shield’s himself from some creature trying to kill him. Harry doesn’t have time to react so firenze goes “noooooooooo” and gets in front of the green burst of light. Another one of Harry’s friends gone.
Anybody notice how this resembles the dep. of mysteries battle. The gold centuar blocked Voldemort’s AK and saved his life.
Thanks for listening