who'll die?

[Ebony]

No: HPFGUIDX 7690

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Rita Winston" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> 
> They are such wonderful kids, brave and clever and beautiful and 
funny and strong and loyal, and totally confident that they're going 
to save the world pretty quickly and then be free to get on with 
their lives, and totally confident that they'll all live happily ever 
 after, and actually they are DOOMED. They don't know that, but we do.

I agree, Rita.  As much as we dream us happily ever afters for all of 
these characters, they are existing in V's shadow, so to speak.

"Eat, drink, let's be merry, for tomorrow we die!"  It does seem as 
if many of the happy moments are never without the taint of Things To 
Come.

Anyone else love this Edgar Allan Poe poem?  One verse in particular 
reminds me of the precarious emotional position of several characters 
in this milieu... 

"I stand amidst the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand--
How few!  yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep--while I weep!
O God!  can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God!  can I not save
*One* from the pitiless wave?
Is *all* that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?"

I'm particularly reminded of the MWPP generation.  All of the ones 
we've met were destroyed in some way by the first war (even Snape, 
who *I* think is a marked man and who is beginning to fascinate me). 
The same evil is still in the world and threatens the generation 
we're reading about now.

OK, I'm starting to get a little depressed, and should stop.  But for 
some reason, I'm starting to think that Ron is safe at this point... 
he can't die in Book 5 and be a kid star in the coinciding movie 
release of Book 1.  *That* would hurt.

--Ebony