I don't see Harry dying/Facing death

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 72813

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Wanda Sherratt" 
<wsherratt3338 at r...> wrote:
> 
> I think that's a perfect description of these stories: it's about 
> facing death.  And I don't think it's a maudlin theme, either.  The 
> old "Love conquers all" theme, that I mistakenly first thought was 
> what JKR was getting at in Dumbledore's speech - THAT would have 
> been maudlin...and cliched.  I also wondered why she was being so 
> cagey there - if it's Love, why not just SAY that?  It's because 
> it's more complicated; the formula is Love + Death.  Voldemort 
> wasn't defeated by Lily's love for Harry; it was when her love led 
> her to willingly lay down her life for him.  And I couldn't help 
> noticing that, if Harry's great power is his love, we found out 
> about it in the volume that showed him at his least loving!  
Perhaps 
> the clue to how this will defeat Voldemort at the end is in his own 
> nature: Voldemort has spent his entire life fleeing Death - trying 
> to escape it, outwit it, ultimately defeat it.  And his entire 
> strategy is based on the assumption that everyone else fears Death 
> as much as he does, and wants to avoid it.  When he faces a victim -
 
> like Lily, and like Harry - who willingly accepts death *for the 
> sake of love*, it short-circuits both his attack and his defence.  
> He doesn't know how to deal with such an opponent, and it seems to 
> me that the act of killing a person at such a moment, almost opens 
> up a sneaky backdoor for Death to attack HIM (Voldemort). This is 
an 
> interesting subject, and I think it's starting to fuse with the 
> thread above about "Emotion".  I think we're starting to make sense 
> of the overarching plan of the stories here.
> 
> Wanda

I totally agree we need to get "the Emotion" people in on this 
because we are all writing about love and facing death. But you don't 
suppose DD has some way of pulling Harry back before the final 
moment? Today at the "Leaky Cauldron" there was a newpaper story 
mostly about "Nimbus" but with a side sort of interview with an 
expert named Granger who said all the various books are about Harry's 
death and rebirth. That gave me a bit of hope that somehow we won't 
have to see him die. Maybe that's just a vain hope but I still cling 
to it. Maybe just his ultimate willingness to be die for this cause 
would be enough. I don't want to be in pre-denial but it is a hard 
thing to contemplate while we wait and wait and wait.
Jennifer