Alchemy revisited: OOP prediction confirmed

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No: HPFGUIDX 67815

Hans:

Take for example Ron and Hermione. My theory is that they're not 
actually two different people, but aspects of the same person, 
namely us! We, the reader, have in us Harry, Ron and Hermione. Harry 
is our renewed heart, Hermione our opened mind and Ron our physical 
personality. Harry is the motivating aspect, i.e. the reborn soul of 
the person who goes the Path of Liberation. When that power is born 
in the heart, a new consciousness is born in the head. This 
consciousness is not the universal one I've mentioned but one that 
opens the head to direct communication with the Divine Plan 
(Hermione – Hermes – the messenger of the Gods). Ron is the earthly 
personality that must surrender itself to the heart. That's why he 
was willing to sacrifice himself for Harry in the chess game. It is 
the heart, guided by the wisdom of the head, that must lead the 
human being on the path of liberation.

Me (Bill):

I think that as Harry matures, his psyche, represented symbolically 
by various other people, is growing more complex.  This is one 
reason why Harry's circle of friends is expanding.  One important 
comment that J. K. Rowling made in a recent interview, is that Luna 
Lovegood (interesting symbolism in her name) is effectively the anti-
Hermione.  Hermione is the rationalist, and the 'voice of reason' 
who shows Harry that 'no man is an island', but instead is part of a 
larger society.  Luna is the intuitionalist, the 'small quiet 
voice', open to the terrible, great, truths that people do not want 
to hear.  Harry needs both of them to awaken to the greater reality 
propelling his life towards its destination.

Hans:

I notice that some people think that Harry's occlumency lessons will 
have to continue in his sixth year. Well my theory is that the whole 
point of book 5 is that Harry doesn't need occlumency! He can defeat 
Voldemort with the power of his heart. He is liberated from mental 
overshadowing. Love is the greatest power in the universe. Nothing 
is stronger. It is "a force that is at once more wonderful and more 
terrible than death, than human intelligence, than the forces of 
nature."

Me (Bill):

Absolutely.  I think that this point, while almost completely 
overshadowed by more 'dramatic' events, will prove crucial in the 
final two volumes.  Harry, while certainly magically powerful, is 
not nearly as powerful as Albus Dumbledore, at least not in terms 
of 'conventional' magic, nor do I think that he ever will be.  It 
has been repeatedly shown in the books that love has a power beyond 
anything Voldemort can control.  Harry is saved from Voldemort at 
the start of Book One, and from Quirrell at the end of the same 
book, by his mother's love and self-sacrifice.  Out of all the doors 
in the Department of Mysteries, I think that the locked door, with 
the mystery of Love behind it, will prove the most important of 
all.  I am sure that Harry was unable to open it for a reason, 
(namely, it would give away too much of what is coming if we were to 
see inside it) and that he will be back to that door in Book Six or 
Seven.

Bill