[HPforGrownups] Voldemort/Richard III/Lucifer

[Peg Kerr]

No: HPFGUIDX 2915

ht wrote:

> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Caius Marcius" <coriolan at w...>
> wrote:
> > There is, as JKR has shown us, a world elsewhere.
> >
> As someone who bought the British versions of the HP books while in
> Stratford ON for the festival, I quite agree!
>
> Apropos of nothing, did anyone else quite think "Of course! Richard
> III!" while reading the scene in GoF where the shadows of the people
> Voldemort had killed come out of his wand and circle Harry and
> Voldemort, whispering encouragement to Harry and G_d-knows-what to
> Voldemort?

Yeah, I love that scene (in both GoF and Richard III). I've already
posted several messages about the similarity, but I'm too lazy to go
look them up now.  I was pretty pleased when I saw that similarity,
too.  Hurray for liberal arts.

(even further off topic And do you know about the similarity between
THAT scene in Richard III to the scene in Paradise Lost, where Lucifer
practically says the same line that Richard III says--where can I fly,
when most I fear is myself.  Or something.  I wrote a paper on it in
graduate school, lo these many years ago, but I'm not in the mood to go
dig it out of the basement to doublecheck the reference.)

(There's another paper for you, Ebony.  Compare and contrast Voldemort
to Richard III and Milton's Lucifer; discuss.)

Peg