SOWILU/ Another tidbit from JKR's site

[Tonks]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
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> bboyminn:
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> EIHWAZ:  Defense, Striving
> Although you are facing a trial, you are protected. The skill you 
most need lies in trusting that protection.  Unforeseeable power and 
wisdom await you if you avoid panic or precipitous overreactions. Be 
strong, and judiciously bold, and no harm should come to you. This 
is the Rune of TESTING.
> 
> SOWILU:  Sunlight; Life Force
> Primal vitality is the issue now. The spark of life within you 
must be fanned and renewed. What feeds your spirit and your Self? 
What gives you joy and energy? Turn to those sources now, and 
restore your elemental enthusiasm for living. This is the Rune of 
WHOLENESS.
> 
> While I can see ways to apply Sowilu to Harry, and admit that 
Sowilu looks more like a lightenig bolt, Eihawaz is practically a 
summary of the HP series. 
> 
> Further, I do think it is significant, but I'm not sure how. 
Though I vaguely remember reading JKR saying that the shape of 
Harry's scar was not significant. Of course, just becaure it 
isn't 'significant' doesn't mean it can't be symbolic.
> 

Tonks:
I think the SOWILU fit HP more than EIHWAZ. The process of Harry's 
adventures are bringing him to the place of wholeness. Like DD 
before him, Harry is being transformed into the Son. Han's is right. 
It is all about Alchemey. The HP series is about the transformation 
of a human being into the image and likeness of God. 

I don't usually read fiction. HP was the first book of fiction that 
I read in over 20 years. I see fiction as escapest and there are too 
many good nonfiction books and too little time to read them all. But 
when I had adults friends who wanted the books for Christmas and 
also heard that it had been banned in Mississippi or some such 
place, I went to the library and read the first book.

It was while reading the part about Harry's scar that I realized 
what it was that I was reading. I said to myself "this is no 
ordinary children's book. This is a book with serious Christian 
symbolism. Wonder where the author is going with this?" And with 
that I have gone on the read the rest of the series and become a 
very obsessed fan.

I see the scar as simular to the sign of the cross that is put on a 
Christian at their baptism. I also think that it is significant that 
the chapter with the scene of DD's murder is called "the lightning 
struck tower".  This connects the events on the tower to the mark on 
Harry. Just as Jesus on the cross is connected to the sign of the 
cross. I think that there will be some connection to this parring 
and the last word in the last book.  Scar.

Tonks_op