Wands, Meanings and Where it All Could Lead...

[four4furies]

No: HPFGUIDX 35279

    Haven't posted for quite a while (and I'm sure nobody missed me) 
but I thought the post from Abigail on the themes of Life, Death and 
Acceptannce were right on point.  It is like the difference between 
Knowledge and Wisdom.  Voldemort seeks knowledge for the purpose of 
gaining power, to be able to do things and subjugate people and 
ultimately to defy death.  Dumbledore, Nicholas Flamel and others 
seek wisdom so that they can understand things as they are and to 
accept the inevitability of things as they are, including death.  
This is important in the context that peple's choices are what 
determine their goodness or badness.  It's like what your motivation 
is will determine your outcomes.



--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "abigailnus" <abigailnus at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "rachelrenee1" <rachelrenee1 at y...> wrote:

> > Well, first we have to look at the "brother" wands of Voldemort 
and Harry. They have the same cores for power, but Volemort has Yew 
and Harry has Holly. Yew is traditionally the tree of death and 
mourning. Holly on the other hand, is associated with life. It is an 
 evergreen. It is alive even in the harshest of winters.  
> 
> In ... Potterverse, evil isn't represented by death and good by 
life, but almost the other way around.  Nicolas Flamel, a friend of 
Dumbldore's and hence a good guy, destroys the Philosopher's Stone 
which Voldemort covets.  ...in destroying it Flamel 
accepts death.  This allows Dumbledore to state, so early in the 
series and with such importance, that "death is but 
the next great adventure."

>  Voldemort is evil not because he causes death but because he 
refuese to accept it - in trying to become immortal he becomes 
inhuman.  To be a dark wizard, then, is to dispute the natural order 
of things - that everything must change and die - and attempt to 
change it.