Subject: Dumbledore created Voldemort?
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Posted on: 2011-12-04 23:32:00 UTC

Given the religious symbolism inherent in the Kings' Cross scene in the last book, in which Dumbledore appears to be some angelic or perhaps deified being, surely the author was continuing the same theme with an allegorical retelling of the fall of Lucifer, perhaps some sort of cleverly-written tribute to Paradise Lost.
Thus we see Harry as Dumbledore's 'son' and heir lead the armies of Heaven (or Hogwarts, which is populated by Dumbledore's students or metaphorical creations) consisting of Dumbledore's faithful followers against his fallen students the Death Eaters, led by the greatest and most powerful, Voldemort.

Not quite sure how to work in Ron being put in Azkaban for rape, though. Some sort of creepy reverse-gender Fall of Man, perhaps?

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