A Message to Fans of Harry Potter from Master Blackwolf
year or so has passed since your Dragonmaster first read the original version of Wizarding World Press' Ultimate Unofficial Guide to the Mysteries of Harry Potter. Since then, a second UUG, along with accompanying supplemental volumes, has been published; in the interim, we have witnessed, among other things, the losses of two of the most important links to young Harry's life: the Prisoner of Azkaban himself, Sirius Black, Harry's godfather; followed, most recently, by the horrifyingly tragic murder of Headmaster Albus Dumbledore --- and, even worse, what on the surface some would call his betrayal at the hands of Professor Severus Snape. Clearly, the first UUG was correct when it explicitly stated on its back cover, "If you thought that Harry Potter was just a children's story, THINK AGAIN!"
The UUG and its follow-ups were designed to analyze every single chapter of J.K. Rowling's Potter books to date, blow by blow, segment by segment, in painstaking detail. And with Half-Blood Prince having made headlines worlwide, with Goblet of Fire, The Movie certain to follow, your Dragonmaster can only determine that the editors' conclusions as made in the first edition of the UUG are quite correct: that indeed we are soon to witness the ultimate Wizard smackdown --- the super-battle of Gryffindor vs. Slytherin. Simply put, Mortals, 'tis a War of the Wizards.... and the fate of two worlds --- Mage and Muggle --- now hangs in the balance!
As you know, Lord Voldemort --- "He who must not be named" --- is Thomas Marvolo Riddle, Jr., Heir of Salazar Slytherin. If you will recall the climactic battle pitting him against Harry, as shown in the Chamber of Secrets movie, Harry's encounter with the Basilisk climaxes in his unexpected wielding of the sword of Godric Gryffindor. Yet, despite Dumbledore's death, the question remains unanswered: Could Harry Potter, son of James and Lily, despite his ability to speak Parseltongue, be revealed as the one true heir of Godric Gryffindor? That mystery, more than any other, as the authors of the first UUG explained to us, now lies at the very heart of the Harry Potter "septology," thus setting the stage for the aforementioned War of Wizards. Thanks to the WWP team, you now know, and perhaps better understand, all that has gone before, and all that is about to come. And with the Wizard War now about to reach its final climax, only the still unknown seventh book in the chronicles will once and for all present the entire truth!
With his last and greatest defender now gone, and Harry himself, now more alone than never before, and having already resolved not to return to Hogwarts for his final year, the Boy Who Lived now prepares himself for his fulfillment of the Lost Prophecy: that he, Harry Potter, and Harry Potter alone, must either destroy Voldemort, or vice versa, that both the Wizard and Muggle worlds can survive, for neither can persist whilst the other lives. As your Dragonmaster has said previously, if this was to be his destiny all along, why all those years ago was he left on the Dursleys' doorstep in the first place? Indeed, what forces were at work to give Harry the power to survive, much less develop his need to live as a person, free to choose the power of life?
The site www.HarryPotter-Boards.com will, I assume, have much more to say on these issues than I could ever hope to say in a single page; but any and all interested Potter fans who have also read the original UUG and its subsequent follow-ups are hereby advised to e-mail me with their concerns or other speculations.