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Originally posted by CookieRevised
And who says there is not an, yet unknown, spell to bring Harry back to life or to give somebody magic?
JKR did. She said that being dead and staying dead is one of the most fundemental things in the whole book. Otherwise it basically undermines the whole point of the series.
It was in a really early interview, like before the fourth book came out.
Also, this might be a good time to explain the two book rule.
A lot of fans have theorised that JKR introduces key elements into the series early so when they are used importantly, we already are familiar with them.
For example, in book 1, McGonagall transformed from a cat into a human, outside Harry's house. Introducing animagi, two books later in PoA, the animagi become a very important part of the whole book.
In book 2 (CoS), Harry, Ron and Hermione use polyjuice potion. It wasn't really an important part of the story line, and if it wasn't in the book, wouldn't really effect the story. Two books later, in GoF, Polyjuice potions become very important as Moody is actually an imposter using said potion.
In book 3 (PoA), Trelawny gives a prophecy to Harry, again, not
very important to the story line, 2 books later and the prophecy becomes the "game changer" of the whole series in OotP.
In book 4 (GoF), Harry accidently uses the pensive in DD's office. In HBP, DD and Harry use the pensive extensively.
Which means something in OotP will be crucial to the plotline of DH.
Although, another thing I thought was that you can consider the first 6 books as two trilogies. Which mirror each other.
For example:
PS/SS: Unsuccesful attempt to bring back Voldemort from the dead.
CoS: Voldemort tries to get into Harry and Ginny's minds in order to bring himself back from the dead.
PoA: Voldemort wasn't even involved in the book, but his aide comes out of the woodwork to help him (although the person we thought was his aide actaully wasn't).
That was the first trilogy in the series.
Trilogy 2:
GoF: A succesful attempt at bringing back Voldie from the dead.
OotP: Voldie infiltrates Harry's mind in order to get something in return
HBP: Voldemort not involved in the book, an apparant aide comes out of the woodwork to help him.
Now two things from that:
1) In PoA, the person we thought was working for voldemort wasn't, so maybe Snape isn't working for voldemort either, as that would be the obvious conclusion.
2) Since the first 6 books are so obviously linked, maybe it is a sign that book 7 will be a complete departure from the rest of the series, and so things like the 2 book rule can be discarded.
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