TBAY: Stoned Harry

[naamagatus]

No: HPFGUIDX 38598

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Edblanning at a... wrote:

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> Ooh........ I think I'm groping towards something here. Is this 
>another of these clash of world view things? The desire for eternal 
(physical) life vs. the desire for eternal (spiritual) life. 
Something in the ' He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that 
hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.' 
(John, 12; 25) vein? Is it Voldemort's insatiable desire for physical 
life which will be his undoing, whilst Harry's embracing of the 'next 
>great adventure' which will be his salvation? 


More than that, in Christianity, life (eternal, redemptive life) 
arises *through* death. The believer gains redemption by dying with 
Christ and Christ's death was real. (The early Christians wrangled a 
lot about whether His death was real or only apparent. The orthodox 
view became that Jesus, as a fully human being, did indeed die). So, 
in Christian terms, Voldemort's refusal to die is truly the ultimate 
evil, since he is refusing redemption (thereby condemning himself to 
eternal damnation? Is eternal life without the possiblity of 
redemption an eternal damnation?).

Naama