GOF&9/11/01and Red Hair/Green Eyes

[Krista Berry]

No: HPFGUIDX 39182

Hello
I'm Lilac, new to the list and so glad to have found
you all!  I've been a big HP fan since 2000, reading
all 4 books for the first time in my last month of
pregnancy, finishing book 4 a few hours before birth
of child #2.  So, enough about me...
Here are a couple of thoughts I've been having after
re-reading the series for the nth time, and after
finding your "Fantastic Posts" via the brilliant
HPLexicon.  

Thought One- (warning, muggle politics involved,
mostly parallels...see comment at the end of post) 

During the GOF graveyard scene, Harry faces some very
horrific events.  As a result, JKR tells us that book
4 is an end of an era; Harry's innocence is now over.
(http://home.scottsburg.com/trinkle/rowlinginterview.htm
is the link, thanks to aberforthsgoat.net).  How
ironic that the situation Harry is in now parallels
the post-September 11th world we now live in. Some
other similarities->

Harry's scar burns to serve as a warning/caution. 
Intelligence Arena (IA)had warnings pre 9/11.

Harry waited for a long time to tell Dumbledore about
scar/dreams.
IA/Government waited for a long time (but too late) to
warn public. 
 
All the pieces weren't fitting together for Dumbledore
(thus the need for the pensieve) before the graveyard.
All the pieces weren't connected enough to fit
together for IA before 9/11.  20/20 hindsight, right?

Innocent Cedric was killed.
Thousands of innocent people were killed.

Harry wounded, but still stands up and fights.
Country wounded, but still stands up and fights.

Wormtail sacrificed part of himself for the
Voldemort's potion, with the promise of reward.  
The "Wormtails" on the airplanes became suicide
hijackers, sacrificing  themselves with the promise of
reward.   

Harry must have "CONSTANT VIGILANCE" from now on.
We are told by our own "Moody's" to be constantly
vigilant everyday from now on.


(Hope this isn't too depressing.  And you thought you
joined this group to get away from all the junk in the
real world...sorry about that)    

No, I don't think JKR had a "Trelawney Trance" when
she wrote GOF and predicted the future.  But I do
think that her book is very timely with the theme of
loss of innocence.  It was bound to happen, in Harry's
world as well as our own.
 
And now for something completely different...thought
number two.

You know how the color red is mostly associated with
Harry/Gryffindor and green with Voldemort/Slytherin?
So, what is the significance, if any, that Lily has
Red Hair and Green Eyes?  Does it have something to do
with how Harry has both Slytherin and Gryffindor
qualities (according to the sorting hat in SS/PS), but
chooses Gryffindor because "it is our choices... that
show what we truly are, far more than our abilities"
(Dumbledore, COS pg. 333).  Does Lily Evans Potter
have some Slytherin in her as well? Things that make
you go hmmmm.

-- Lilac :) (who will be going to the humongous big
file after finishing this to see if she did everything
right)



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