Tell me more!(Re: Thoughts on a strangely unsatisfying death(?) scene)

[D.G.]

No: HPFGUIDX 69251

D.G. ("JazzmanChgo") wrote:

I continue to think there's some kind of familial connection between 
Harry and Lord V, perhaps closer  than a lot of folks have heretofore 
imagined]


Iris answered:

I'd be happy if you could give me some details about this, and if 
other listies could tell me what they think of this very interesting 

Me (again):

Well, until this last book, I harbored the notion [which I know will 
appall everyone] that, in fact, James was NOT Harry's "real" father 
(i.e., his birth father) but that he had married Harry's mother after 
she'd already had a baby by Tom Riddle [a previous marriage, I 
supposed we'd have to assume -- Riddle, as Voldemort, could have 
invaded her as an incubus, I supposed, but that's probably a bit too 
graphic for a story aimed at children and young adolescents] --

Now that we've seen, with our own eyes, that James was exremely 
physically similar to Harry, and we've also seen that Harry's mother 
was a gentle-hearted soul who was perfectly capable of being 
sympathetic to a nascent Dark Arts practitioner but would certainly 
never have married one, I think we can put that particular crackpot 
theory to rest. (I confess I don't remember how much older Riddle was 
than Harry's parents, so it's possible that this theory never had 
legs in the first place).

But now -- someone else has postulated that Lord V might have been 
Harry's grandfather;  Is it possible he might even have been an 
uncle!?  

I still can't get it out of my head that in the mythic tradition of 
which these books are a part, the son must slay the father 
symbolically [or, in the New Testament reversal, the Father must 
sacrifice the Son], in order for the Son's mission in this world to 
be accomlplished.

Now here's another version of that Father/Son business, which will 
probably offend almost as many people as the one I just laid out:  
maybe Dumbledore is the [surrogate] Father with whom the Son must 
eventually engage in mortal combat; certainly the other benevolent 
father figures (James, then Sirius) seem to have been effectively 
eliminated.

I'll leave that idea for others to mull upon...

D.G. ("Jazzman Chgo"), who would be utterly charmed to see Iris 
serving Hagrid a glass of Gevrey Chambertin in an outdoor cafe in 
Dijon... and would definitely request one of his own!