[HPforGrownups] re: House colors / The Thread about Bullying, with lots of MWPP - SS

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No: HPFGUIDX 43458


Catlady writes:

>Which makes me wonder about JKR. How much of the authorial
voice's worldview is her own worldview? If she does like insensitive
thuggish popular jocks who stand together with their friends to
physically fight other school gangs (the Marauders against Snape's
Slytherins; Fred and George and Harry and Ron against Draco's
Slytherins), how does that get along with all her liberal and
anti-torture beliefs?>

Ooch. Perhaps a different perspective will help. The word 'liberal' also
translates as 'generous'. Rowling is (as ever) honest about the forces at
work in the world. Differences, polarities, create the energy gradients
necessary to move and thus change things, and that's the business of both
life and stories (as reflected in chemistry and its parent, alchemy). She
also shows us, as Harry is learning, to look closely, to see dark and light,
positive and negative. "What IS." Not just what we want it to be. In the
world we are handing our kids, they all need to be Harry. All, "tried in the
fire."

"To look with the eyes and see with the heart is the secret of the
Philosopher's Stone."   ~Petrus Bonus

Thus, I find Rowling both consistant and powerful.

Like many-I've sometimes been sick at heart fearing that she would have to
kill Harry in following out her line of thought/tradition. But I'm relieved
in also thinking the conjugate of the pair has already been played out in
Lily.

I've also suspected that Dumbledore might be Nick Flamel. The act of
creating the philosopher's stone stirs up forces, light and dark, more than
usual. Always part of the creative process, destruction. :)  And it also
falls to him to see he leaves things balanced, or at least buffer the
heightened energy potential. Also Quidditch: again, it's the world boiled
down to the chemistry of forces. All the action elsewhere is just so the
Seeker can seek. The dull and the stupid have always owned the field; that's
what they want-security...  The Seeker doesn't. He wants to remain open to
every new breeze that blows. He's about courage and love.

 Virtutes divinae in res diffusae.
       ~Agrippa von Nettesheim

"When The intellect serves the ego alone, it is the very devil!"
          ~C.G. Jung

dmc