CoS irrelevant?

[c_voth312 <divaclv@aol.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48766

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Suzanne Chiles" 
<suzchiles at p...> wrote:
> 
> I think that CoS is very relevant, mostly because we learn so much 
about
> Voldemort as a schoolboy, and from knowing his history, we can then 
begin to
> understand some of the factors that made him the way he is. We 
certainly
> needed the information about Voldemort to understand the climax 
scene of
> GoF, and I would suspect that knowing what we learn about him in 
CoS will be
> a helpful guide to understanding his actions in the remaining three 
books.

We also learn about the connections--both literal and figurative--
between Voldemort and Harry.  The fact that Harry got a piece of 
Voldemort's power due to the backfired AK, and that Parseltongue is a 
part of that, seems almost certain to play a part in future 
installments.  It's also a nice time to examine the parallels between 
the two--both orphans (Voldemort in the de facto sense, but very much 
without parents all the same), both with unpleasant experiences in 
the Muggle world, etc.  The notion that the demarcation between good 
and evil isn't all that clear starts to crop up in CoS, although it's 
fleshed out more fully in the next two books.

~Christi