[HPforGrownups] Holly and Yew / Dragons and Rebirth

[Carolina]

No: HPFGUIDX 90253

> Sawsan:

> I wonder why Hermione hasn't noticed or mentioned anything about
> Harry's scar and the eihwaz rune, now that I actually looked it up and
> thanks to the people who noticed it before, I am surprised at
> Hermione's not even showing any remote interest in the similarities.

Rune knowledge is very alien to me, so if in the next books Rowkling says 
--hey, that was the scar all the time, didn't you see it was a rune?-- I'll 
answer 'What? Please explain' and 'How was I supossed to know? There are 
runes everywhere in fantasy novels, but I don't have to know what they mean 
in order to follow the book, the characters do that work for me'.

Not that I'm saying you are not correct, only that I'd feel lost, and I don't 
know how would feel the medium teenager reader, so I supposse that rune must 
be only one detail in a collection of them, all telling the same thing. 

> I also want to know if there is something in the eihwaz rune that has
> something to do with the "more wonderful and more terrible than death"
> part of the prophesy, considering it has strong ties to death and
> rebirth and so on.

Halloween, that I understand. It is also tied to death and rebirth and was the 
night of the attack on the Potters.

> Also, considering the rebirth part of the rune, I almost want to think
> that since Harry was the only known person to survive the AK curse,
> that he might be the only known person to come back from the dead as
> well. I know that is farfetched, but JKR always likes to throw in the
> fact that Harry might not live at the end of the series, but I find it
> unlikely that if he does die that he will stay dead. Do I make any
> sense? :P

Oh, well, let's just theorice, I don't know about runes but yes about dragons. 
One extented idea in fantasy is that a Dragon's heart that has been treated 
somehow has rebirth powers. Sometimes it is also included the detail that 
it's better (or required) if the Dragon is a venomous one. Using the heart 
kills the dragon, but that's not a problem in the Potterverse, they sell them 
per ounzes in Diagon Alley.

So let's go to canon:

Norbert, who has a chapter tittle, is a venomous dragon.

There was a philosopher stone (also tied to life power) available at Howgarts.

We saw Hagrid crying. The kids assume it's because N goes to Rumania, but it 
may be because he knows N is virtually dead. He'll be sacrificed if required.

The scape in the middle of the night is strongly hinted in the book to have 
been prepared by the teacher's staff. I think a 15 year old Harry wouldn't 
have bought that charade.

Dumbledore has studied dragons and published the 12 uses of the dragon blood, 
so if someone has to know about what could be done with a Dragon's heart, 
it's him.

Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus.

Silmariel