Harry the Saviour? (was Re: A quote, and RE: Potter

[lucky_kari]

No: HPFGUIDX 36961

Yesterday was Palm/Passion Sunday. Over breakfast, I was talking with 
my Dad about who might be redeemed in the end in HP. To my immense 
displeasure, he nominated Draco. :-) "But, what about Pettigrew?"

Well, we decided that Pettigrew is too obviously modeled off 
Wormtongue to go with that sort of ending. But there is something up 
with him. What?

And, listening to the second Gospel, something clicked. It was the 
line about the potter's field that caught my attention.

3   When Judas, his betrayer, saw that he was condemned, he repented 
and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief
priests and the elders,
4   saying, "I have sinned in betraying innocent blood." They said, 
"What is that to us? See to it yourself."
5   And throwing down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed; 
and he went and hanged himself.
6   But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, "It is 
not lawful to put them into the treasury, since they are blood
money."
7   So they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to 
bury strangers in.
8   Therefore that field has been called the Field of Blood to this 
day.

Afterwards, I began to wonder if this is the ending for Pettigrew. 
After all, Judas is the prototypical traitor. I could see remorse 
finally getting to him, and Voldemort mocking him. And it would mesh 
with the comment JKR made.

Eileen


--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "cmf_usc" <cmf_usc at y...> wrote:
> Catlady found a JKR quote:
>  <<She's a member of the Church of Scotland and, whenever she's 
> asked,  says, "I believe in God, not magic." In fact, Rowling 
> initially was  afraid that if people were aware of her Christian 
> faith, she would give away too much of what's coming in the 
> series. "If I talk too  freely about that," she told a Canadian 
> reporter, "I think the intelligent reader -- whether ten[years old] 
> or sixty -- will be  able to guess what is coming in the books.">>
> 
> Then Catlady:<<gloated at it, because to me saying that mentioning 
> Christianity will give the plot away means I'm right in my theory 
> that Harry  will die to destroy Voldemort.>> 
> 
> And Naama replied:
> <<Well, if you go for analogies between HP and JC, why stop at the 
> sacrificial death? What about the resurrection? <snip>
> Come to think of it, Harry already represents a miraculous victory  
> over death, as the only known person to survive the Avada Kedavra 
> curse. Possibly he will repeat this overcoming of death in some form 
> in the future?>>
> 
> Now me:
> There are so many symbols of resurrection/rebirth surrounding Harry! 
 
> The phoenix (immortality, resurrection), holly (rebirth), lion 
> (rebirth, power),  gryphon (salvation)...  
> 
> And surrounding his parents--stag (resurrection, Tree of Life), 
> willow (Tree of Life, immortality, protection, miraculous births), 
> the name Lily (purity, resurrection).
> 
> I think--we're supposed to see Harry as the chosen child.  The one 
> who will bring rebirth.  But I hope that it's sort of a split 
process-
> -that his parents did the sacrifical death part, leaving the 
> rebirth/salvation to him...
> 
> Because--I just feel so protective towards the kid!  Ever since 
those 
> scenes with Lupin, and the boggart... He's had such a crappy  life 
so 
> far, I hate to think his choice between "right & easy" will have to 
> be to choose death.
> 
> Extra Credit questions:
> 1.  If Harry doesn't have to choose between life & death, what else 
> might his right vs easy decision be about?
> 2.  Would AK actually work on Harry now? Or does Voldemort just 
think 
> it will?
> 
> Caroline