Symbology: Quidditch and Liberation

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No: HPFGUIDX 76799

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Ivan Vablatsky 
<ibotsjfvxfst at y...> wrote:What has all this to do with quidditch? 
Well, what happens when the 
seeker
> catches the snitch? The game ends! It's the end of the interplay of
> opposites! The consciousness is at harmony.
> 

Yes but it doesn't end the underlying problem behind Quidditch - 
which is to battle the opponent and score points and win the game. If 
the snitch is caught  before any points are scored neither team wins. 
After it is caught, there are still two teams and they have not been 
destroyed. There are still two seekers and only one has the snitch. 

The war or action has ended the goals that underly it remain. 
Meaning when you open up the game again you are back at the same 
place you always were. You are fighting your opponent. The whole 
idea that the otherside is your opponent never goes away. Chess is no 
different. Nothing greater than fictional territory or a win has 
been achieved by taking the King. The only thing won is the game. 
All the rules are still in play. 

My prediction for HP is quite different. Quidditch could symbolize 
the opposite of what you believe - the constant and never ending 
divisions that tear the Wizarding World apart. (as ridiculous as I 
believe it is, it already has been hinted by the hat's recent 
comemnts about the sorting. Personally I think it silly to fear the 
house system.) 

I believe in the end there will be a destruction or melding of the WW 
into the muggle one. The secrecy will be gone. Only then can 
wizards rid themselves of that which breeds their darkness and 
divisions - the idea that there are good and bad ways to live. The 
idea they are better than muggles. And of course it will remove the 
ignorance of both sides. For example the hate of Mr. Riddle that bred 
up Tom into Lord Voldemort. Squibs like Arabella and Filch (or even 
Petunia whom I suspect comes from a mixed family of both muggles and 
witches and therefore is more properly called a muggle than a squib) 
could symbolize how this secrecy is both damaging and painful to both 
sides. Those who are denied magic cannot comfotably settle in as 
muggles. Just like the many who seem not to fully accept the muggle 
born. (or so Rowling has told us about mudbloods but rarely shown.)


What you say to that?

Golly
Who thinks peace prizes are for people whose work actually advances 
peace rather than just for people think it a good idea.


(and who keeps forgetting to log out her friend before posting... 
sorry...)