Valdemar is a normal german first name, allthough currently not very trendy. But there are lots of people in their 60s who are named Waldemar. That name doesnt associate with anything evil in germany.
The Völkermord reference is one that only an english native speaker would possibly see. Now that I see it I can imagine pronouncing it with an english accent and that may work, but I still think its far fetched. But we wouldnt know, the whole HP series seems to target the racial discrimination topic and the germans of that time definitly had a hand in creating such notions.

 

I can't say much about the second one. But with regards to Valdemar, I wasn't really associating it with anything evil. Rather, the Poe reference is the stronger association than what the name's origin really means. Lot's of names of origins that no one associates with the name unless they actively go looking for what the name meant. However, in Poe's story, Valdemar is so terrified of death that he purposefully puts himself into a coma to extend his life. He is a well known enough writer than I can easily see her using the association as it is extremely close to Voldemort's fears. Though, most likely, she didn't go beyond the French meaning.

 

based on HBP it doesn't exist and Harry's screwed, prior to that it could be a multitude of things. Harry getting a harem and Using the "love" to some how hurt voldy like when he was possesed would be nice. or an uzi that always works pretty well.

 

Wouldn't it just be great if Voldemort got bowel cancer and died off screen early into the fourth chapter, the rest of the book could be about Harry struggling to find a job without any real qualifications (because lets face it if owls are the equivalent of GCSEs thats barely enough to get him a job as a shop assistant) and with no respect due to the dark lord having died of natural causes.
This could be the one situation in which his marrying weaslet would be acceptable, just picture it harry having come home from a hard day at his minimum wage job where his co-workers refer to him as The-boy-who-did-nothing-special his only source of relief is that archaic 16th century rules which govern the wizarding world allow him to beat his wife to within an inch of her life without reprisal.

Go on JKR make a spousal abuse story, you know you want to.

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...Alter Alias:

This topic is over 6 months old. Is reading the forum rules below you? Are you too good to let the laws apply?

Use some common sense. No one cares about a thread 6 months old. So don't bump tham back up and waste our time.

Don't go poking around in anything more than a couple months old.

 

Jbern.

The power the Dark Lord knows not is apparently jbern, as voted by the darklordpotter community.

 

When dueling Dark Lords, I always find a good happy-slapping works best...
But that is just the opinion of your truly.

I certainly hope that Rowling doesn't develop some lame way of "destroying" Tommy and Harry does, in fact, kill Voldemort.

 

I am sorry everyone. You are all wrong.

Dobby is going to kick Voldie's ass, and then probably hump Harry's leg like a Bulldog on a pork chop.

 

In all honesty this Voldy thing could have been solved a longggg time ago. All you gotta do is put a sniper under the imperius and tell him to go take out voldy, job done. Or buy a fucken missile launcher and shoot it at him.

 

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Atom bomb with Harrys....'essence' built in. BOOM No more Voldy... or well, anybody.

 

Shades of Dr. Strangelove...

 

My guess is it will have something to do with love or emotions(it's a kids book)
but i would prefer that Harry has a uncanny ability for a obscure branch of magic such as necromancey or dark magic in general. I would find it ironic that the light side had it's hero use the magic they despised to kill the greatest user of it.
But it's not gonna happen......Sigh.

People don't kill people, bullets kill dark wizards just as well as ak's

 

Now all I can picture is a obese Harry dressed in chaps and a cowboy hat riding the "Atomic Harry Bomb", straight down Voldie's throat.

Come to think of it, thats a fucking hilarious idea.

 

The prophey says 'Either will die at the hand of the other' right? who's to say it's a physical hand? My vote goes to the DA getting renamed somthing like 'Potter's fist' or somthing of that nature, and ambushing Voldi. harry of course has no Idea as he's out destroying Horcrux. The PF (Former DA) gets absolutly massacured down to a battered and bruised Neville Longbottom who manages a cutting curse after being left for dead. Just as he casts the curse harry destroy's the last horcrux causing voldimort to freeze, and the curse catches him across the neck.

Not only does Voldi die at 'Harry's hand' but neville gets to spout some crap about finally being avenged and how he hopes the best for harry. Neville will of course either die alone, or be shown as part of the new HP/HG/RW/LL/GW group, who 'Know it won't be easy, but are willing to work for a better tomarrow... Together.'

Bleh, I need to go eat a Lemon to counter all the sugary crap now.

 

Meh. With that kind of prophecy interpretation, Voldemort could die by a large amount of canned peas falling on him inside a muggle store named The Hand, owned by someone with the last name Other.

...Actually, I'm making that my thesis simply because of it's improbability.

 

... I think that this one gets my vote. Keep in mind though that the owner would have to be 'Born as the seventh month dies'

Edit: and his 'Power the Dark Lord knows not' could be perfect symmetry when stacking cans

 

The power that the dark lord knows not is the power to disintegrate a person and soul with just one minute motion.
Actually, that would be a major turn down. A super duper Harry Potter? In one go without any practice? Not exactly my cup of tea.
I’d actually be very disappointed if Harry’s actual power would be something related to sappy love. Seems so sissy like….
I'd be more depressed if the power were of sacrifice: everyone risks their own life just so that he would live. Think of it. If everyone were to throw themselves in front of Harry just to take the death curses hurled towards him, then Harry wouldn't have to worry about saving the wizarding world because everyone would be dead by the time the showdown comes up.

 

The power of buttsecks.

 

No, No, No, Everyone has it wrong. The Power the Dark Lord Knows Not is...
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Harry's Love of Beans. I can see it now, Harry has just finished his 5 year long mission (cookie to who knows where this is from.) He is seating around in his camp in a remote location (I mean come one, Big V by this time will have taken over most of Europe) and he is really "broken" about the death of Herms and Weasel. He is gorging himself on every can of Pork & Beans that he can find. Then suddenly Big V comes out of now (apperate or whatever the hell it is called), and challenges Harry to a Duel to end all Duels, to the Battle of all Battles, to the Ass kicking of all Ass Kicking... well you get the picture.

Once Big V gets his evil laugh out of his system, He notices that Harry looks a little green under the collar. As Big V looks around, he starts to become apprehensive because the one fear in his life now is beans. He just doesn’t know how they work. And why they cause CONSTANCE FLATULENCE!

While Big V is looking around, Harry starts to have stomach pains. The next thing everyone knows is that a loud sonic boom is heard miles around.

After a 12 hour car drive to said place, any and all magic travel has been cut off. They find Harry in the middle of a carter the size of New York, NY.

When they get close enough, they hear Harry mumble, "Flatulence, the Power the Dark Lord Knows Not"

There it is. My thought on what the "Power" is. Laugh all you want, it only took 10 minutes to type (I type slow).

Paul
dark007
or better known as PsychoKillerSloth
(anyway to get a name change?)

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My first attempt at anything writing outside of English Class