[HPforGrownups] More Harry as Saviour, If I Were Headmaster, and a bit of MoM

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

No: HPFGUIDX 37070

At 6:55 PM -0800 3/26/02, L. Terrell Gould, III wrote:
>Lord Voldemort was regenerated (reborn) because of the BLOOD of his 
>foe (amongst other wonderful ingredients).... HARRY!  Another nod 
>towards Harry being a Christ figure?

The blood-is-life theme and the regenerative aspects of blood are 
actually pretty common in world religions.

At 2:24 AM -0500 3/27/02, Amy Z wrote:
>So is Lily, with her salvific, sacrificial love . . .

One could argue that this would make her a type of Inanna or Isis, 
rather than any figure from Christian cosmology.

Not that I'm claiming that the Christian interpretation is wrong, 
mind.  I'm just pointing out that there may be other religious 
sources as well, and that some of the archetypes being drawn upon by 
Rowling are universal ones, rather than being limited to one religion.


At 7:24 PM -0500 3/26/02, Michelle Strauss wrote:
>And I am throwing in my two knuts. If I was the headmaster, and it were up
>to me to prepare Harry for the Final Battle, one of the first things I'd do
>is pull him from the general population. Once Harry has been academiclly
>isolated and insolated from such concerns as house rivalry, *snip*

I see Harry's isolation from his peers at the Dursleys' as one of 
their most effective methods of stunting him.  Very little they threw 
at him had much effect; that did.  Harry's full blossoming as a human 
seems to take place in the company of his friends, and removing them 
from him is the worst possible torture - look at his reactions to 
being separated, voluntarily more or less, from Ron in GoF.  Removing 
him socially from the other students, and especially from the 
affections of his own House, seems to be letting the Dursleys win by 
default - and I can't imagine that Voldemort wouldn't be well-served 
by that.  It was love that saved Harry the first time; I suspect love 
will be Voldemort's downfall again.  Isolation of Harry, no matter 
for what sort of training, actively works against that, IMHO.



At 8:47 PM +0000 3/27/02, alhewison wrote:
>(it still
>exists on our statute books for 3 crimes including treason and for
>some reason Arson in a Naval Dockyard)

How old is this law?  I get this images of wooden ships and kegs of 
black powder . . .


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