[HPforGrownups] Sherbet and Death

[Laura Ingalls Huntley]

No: HPFGUIDX 41061

Gulplum wrote:
"No, sherbert has got nothing to do with ice cream. Why should you 
think it has?"

The same reason we think a jumper is a sleeveless dress made esp. for small girls.  It's pretty obvious that British and American English are not identical.

As for the sorbet/sherbert debate..I don't know.  Until now I had thought that they were different.  Both ice cream-ish...but it seemed like there was some minor difference...perhaps the way they are made or the fact that one doesn't contain dairy?

On an entirely different note:

Jo Ellen asked:
> why is it so important to V to be doing what he is doing, in 
> gaining immortality? What will having immortality help him 
> achieve? What kind of crazy is that?  

and Hollydaze added:
>I am of the opinion that LV is actually scared of death.

Um, isn't everyone?

Honestly...maybe if one had lived as long as Flamel -- I can seem them having done everything, seen everything, etc. and being bored with life and ready to go on.  But honestly, aside from the emotionally unstable, how accepting is the average healthy person of death??  Speaking of emotionally unstable, I must add that I have to disagree (to certain extent) with Dumbledore's statement that "to the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."  Unless you stipulate that achieving a well organized mind is basically impossible for anyone under the age of about 100, this doesn't seem particularly healthy.

I mean, sure it *sounds* deep and intelligent, and I think that in Flamel's case, it is applicable.  However, arguing that a healthy person should actually look forward to death (even to a certain extent) -- it just seems unnatural and wrong to me.

Now, I do think that Voldemort *does* have a certain obsession with avoiding death.  But given the power he has coupled with the natural human fear of death -- it's not all that surprising, is it?

laura


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